Ilyes Kooli
Lead Software Engineer at Cocolabs
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolIlyes Kooli is a Lead Software Engineer based in Bucharest with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, microservices, and high-availability platforms. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership—having served as CTO of a startup, led architecture and migration efforts at large e-commerce sites, and coached teams on TDD, Symfony, and DevOps practices. Technically fluent across Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes on GCP, PHP/Symfony, RabbitMQ and CI/CD, he’s also an active open-source contributor (notably improving RabbitMQ support for Symfony). Comfortable wearing many hats, he pairs strategic architecture and security thinking with day-to-day coding and mentoring. Colleagues describe him as a software craftsman who systematically turns complex operational requirements into maintainable, testable systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, A, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, A at INSAT
Romanian, Arabic, French, English
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
jquery10
amqp10
phpunit10
rabbitmq10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
jquery-ui10
messaging9
ajax9
magento9
symfony-bundle9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
php-amqplib/RabbitMqBundle
Feb 2016 - May 2018
RabbitMQ Bundle for the Symfony web framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 39 commits, 54 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ilyes primarily focused on enhancing the OldSoundRabbitMqBundle for the Symfony framework. Their contributions involved implementing bindings, which involved creating and managing connections, exchanges and destinations. Furthermore, they worked on configuring and testing RPC client features, including support for lazy loading and direct reply-to functionality. The user also made code formatting improvements and refactoring changes.
bundlephpsymfony-bundlephp-amqplibamqp
ElefantLabs/PublicEventsBundle
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 12 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
eventsbundlephpsymfony-bundleinter
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