Farhad Safarov
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Dugun.com
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolFarhad Safarov is a senior software engineer and team lead with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading engineering teams from Istanbul. He co-founded and still runs AzerDict, a high-traffic English–Azerbaijani dictionary and language service, and currently leads backend and frontend development, DevOps and quality practices at Dugun.com. His technical stack centers on Symfony/PHP, REST APIs, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and modern front-end frameworks, complemented by hands-on AWS, Docker and CI/CD work. Farhad blends entrepreneurial instincts with product-focused engineering—having served as CTO at multiple startups—so he navigates both strategic architecture and day-to-day delivery. He also contributes to the Symfony documentation, improving integrations and email/security docs, reflecting attention to developer experience and community standards. With academic roots in international relations, he brings a broad perspective to product-market fit and cross-functional collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, International Relations and Affairs, Master's Degree, International Relations and Affairs at Istanbul UniversityBachelor's Degree, International Relations and Political Science, Bachelor's Degree, International Relations and Political Science at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish, Spanish, Azerbaijani, Russian
Stackoverflow
4,121reputation
325kreached
80answers
32questions
php
top-5%
symfony
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Github Skills (19)
symfony10
symfony-ux10
documentation10
php9
mailer9
notification8
notify8
google-compute-engine6
twig6
google-api-client6
doctrine-orm6
configurations6
doctrine6
data-serialization6
entities6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
Feb 2016 - Mar 2021
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Farhad primarily contributed to updating and improving the Symfony documentation. Their work involved correcting existing documentation, adding details about configuration parameters, fixing format for credentials for specific mailer services, and incorporating details about integrations. This user made updates across multiple documentation files related to email, serializer, security, components, and the notifier component. The user's contributions focused on refining existing content and expanding on integrations.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
seferov/blog-bundle
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 36 commits, 32 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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