Arvids Godjuks
Self Employed
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolArvids Godjuks is a pragmatic Head of Engineering and backend specialist based in Riga with nearly two decades of hands-on experience in PHP and JavaScript and 11 years in senior professional roles. He combines day-to-day engineering leadership at UpMarket with ongoing freelance work, bringing operational rigor from running teams and product-focused engineering to client projects across insurance, education, and e-commerce. Deeply experienced in the Symfony/Sylius ecosystem, he has contributed fixes and feature work to the well-known Sylius e-commerce framework, notably improving payment flows and multi-image handling. His background spans building transaction processing systems, event-driven microservices on AWS, and migrating legacy PHP to modern stacks, showing comfort across both architecture and implementation. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who moves between coding, mentoring, and long-term technical strategy, with a practical knack for turning messy production issues into robust solutions. Fluent in managing remote teams and small companies, he blends entrepreneurial experience as a former co-owner with steady open-source contribution.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
3 pakapes profesionala izglitiba programming, 3 pakapes profesionala izglitiba programming at Rigas State technical schoolbachelor Computer Science, bachelor Computer Science at Transport and Telecommunication InstitutePrimary School Russian Language and Literature, Primary School Russian Language and Literature at Rigas Krievu Ģimnāzija
English, Latvian, Russian
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
symfony-bundle10
ecommerce10
app-framework10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
sylius10
web-framework10
shopify9
rest-api9
webshop9
shopware9
api8
favicon6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Sylius/Sylius
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 9 PRs, 123 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Arvids primarily focused on enhancing and fixing issues within the Sylius eCommerce framework, particularly in the areas of payment processing and image handling. They addressed problems with the `NotifyNullAction` in the Payum bundle to ensure proper payment state updates. Furthermore, the user made contributions related to display of country information and documentation, addressing a unique issue to allow both single and multiple image uploads. Additionally, the user corrected a customer email handling to prevent unique constraint errors.
apisyliusecommercephpheadless-ecommerce
psihius/Vaprobash
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:71 commits, 76 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
provisioningvagrantbash-scriptsansiblebash
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