Denis Brumann
Solutions Architect at Next Kraftwerke
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolDenis Brumann is a Solutions Architect with 14+ years of experience modernizing web-facing and e-commerce platforms for better reliability, maintainability and performance. He combines hands-on PHP expertise (from v5 to current, primarily Symfony) with designing scalable, highly available architectures, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs and asynchronous systems using message brokers like RabbitMQ. Denis has driven migrations and test-driven refactorings, improved CI/CD and operational practices, and coached teams through audits, code reviews and pair programming in cross-functional agile environments. As a frequent OSS contributor and former co-organizer of Symfony user groups in Berlin and Cologne, he has influenced tools like deptrac to keep architectures clean and robust. He’s comfortable translating non-technical business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions and enjoys fostering inclusive teams that continuously learn. Based in Cologne, he balances deep technical delivery with public speaking and workshop coaching to share practical lessons beyond the code.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, Bachelor's degree, Linguistics at Leipzig University
English, German, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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twig
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entity
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zend-framework
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phpunit
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php
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doctrine-orm
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Github Skills (18)
architecture10
configuration-management10
php10
code-analysis10
symfony10
architectures10
zend-framework9
phpunit9
entity9
doctrine-orm9
twig9
doctrine6
laravel6
github6
webpack6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
deptrac/deptrac
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Keep your architecture clean.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 163 reviews, 313 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Denis contributed to the architecture of the project, focusing on code related to configuration management and analysis. They implemented features to handle null values in exclude files, refactored the analysis command to return a 0 exit code when no violations are found, and reduced verbosity in the AstMap generation process. They also addressed upgrades and made fixes for issues found by rector.
keepphpcodeclimatecleanstatic-code-analysis
dbrumann/dbrumann.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
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