Ilya Nekrasov
Head Of PHP at Mercuryo
Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Nekrasov is an experienced engineering leader and Head of PHP with 11+ years building and maintaining large e-commerce systems across monoliths and microservices. He combines hands-on backend work in PHP and Go with people and process leadership, currently leading PHP efforts at Mercuryo after a decade managing engineering teams at Greensight. A passionate Laravel advocate, he is an occasional contributor to the framework and maintains an open-source Laravel package (since 2015) with 1k stars and over 2 million downloads, reflecting real-world tooling impact. His OSS work includes fixes and enhancements to core Illuminate components, improving debugging and collection utilities used across the ecosystem. Trained in applied mathematics from MIET, he enjoys improving developer productivity through tools, standards, and streamlined processes. Based in Cyprus, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor and developer empathy to scale payment and e-commerce platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Специалист, Прикладная математика, Специалист, Прикладная математика at Московский Государственный Институт Электронной Техники (Технический Университет) (МИЭТ)
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (25)
face10
web-widgets10
facade10
widgets10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
f10
service-provider10
debug9
artisan9
debugging9
schema-design9
configuration-management9
db-schema9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arrilot/laravel-widgets
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Widgets for Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 233 commits, 38 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily focused on developing the core functionality of a Laravel-based widget system. They initiated the project by creating a service provider, a factory, and a facade. Subsequent commits involved implementing basic functionality, adding an artisan command for widget creation, and refactoring code for more modular design. The user also integrated with Laravel's configuration system and added support for blade directives.
laravelphpwidgets
laravel/framework
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 43 PRs, 166 comments in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements. They fixed issues related to string support in the `dd()` function and the `app:name` command. Additionally, they added new functionalities like `whereNotNull` and `orWhereNull` to the `JoinClause` and made improvements to collection methods. The user also added support for JSONB datatypes.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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