Bulat Shakirzyanov
Software Engineer at Stealth Identity Startup
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBulat Shakirzyanov is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years building backend systems, cloud integrations, and developer-facing libraries across startups and enterprises. His career includes roles from programmer to principal engineer and orchestration-focused work at Upbound, DataStax, Twilio and Gusto, blending product security, drivers/SDK architecture, and cloud control-plane improvements. An active open-source contributor, he has extended widely used projects in the PHP and Ruby ecosystems—adding AWS Route 53 mocks to Fog and improving Doctrine MongoDB/ODM integrations—showing attention to testing, logging, and cross-platform compatibility. He favors pragmatic refactors, better error handling, and performance-minded parallelization, often working at the intersection of developer ergonomics and production reliability. Based in Conshohocken, PA, he brings a hacker’s curiosity (and a dry sense of humor) to serious systems problems: “I would like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.”
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business Computing, BS, Business Computing at Westminster International University in Tashkent
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Github Skills (51)
kubernetes10
appbundle10
symfony-component10
controller10
symfony-bundle10
image-processing10
testing10
doctrine10
object-oriented-programming10
bundle10
mongodb-database10
react-component10
ruby10
controls10
php10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
avalanche123/AvalancheImagineBundle
Feb 2011 - Mar 2015
Image manipulation using Imagine and Twig Filters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bulat primarily worked on enhancing the functionality and stability of an image manipulation bundle. Their contributions involved fixing bundle-related issues, refactoring code, and improving error handling to provide more informative exceptions. The user also updated the bundle for lazy image processing and added a php templating helper. Furthermore, they updated namespaces and typehints to align with the current codebase.
manipulationimage-manipulationfilterstwigimagine
php-imagine/Imagine
May 2010 - Feb 2018
PHP Object Oriented image manipulation library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:481 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bulat's contributions primarily focused on improving the Imagine PHP image manipulation library. They fixed code formatting issues within the codebase, including indentation and alignment, specifically in the `StandardImageManager.php` file. They also made changes to several files involving fixing namespace/directory issues in the test and library files. They introduced the ability to upload image types. They also added some value objects for points and sizes and refactored the api.
manipulationmanipulation-libraryimageimage-manipulationphp
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