Ivan Atanasov is a Senior PHP Developer and Tech Lead based in Berlin with a decade of professional experience building and migrating backend systems across e-commerce, marketplaces, and startups. He brings deep hands-on expertise in vanilla PHP, Laravel (especially v5), Symfony, and microservices, and has practical experience with both MySQL and MongoDB. Ivan has led small to medium teams, onboarded and mentored developers, and driven Agile practices, having experimented with Scrum and Kanban to find the best fit for delivery. Comfortable with legacy code and refactoring, he has repeatedly modernized older stacks while keeping product needs in focus. A pragmatic tinkerer and frequent freelancer, he pairs a love for teamwork and constructive feedback with a willingness to pick up new frameworks and tools. He values team chemistry above all and treats technical leadership as enabling others to ship reliable software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Telecommunications, Bachelor, Telecommunications at Technical University of Sofia
High school, Computer technologies, High school, Computer technologies at UKTC Pravets
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Ivan Atanasov - Senior PHP Developer Tech Lead at Contorion