Summary
Marks Leidmans is a senior software engineer from Riga with roughly 30 years in development and over 15 years focused on PHP, including a decade of Laravel expertise. He has led small engineering teams for nearly a decade and repeatedly delivered end-to-end web and backend systems—from custom PHP frameworks and microservices to payment integrations and mobile backend services. His background blends hands-on security work (brute-force protection, session hardening) with payments and virtual card systems, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and compliance. Marks also runs projects and consults on e-commerce and corporate sites, optimizing backend performance and building REST APIs and integrations that simplify business workflows. Comfortable communicating with customers and developers alike, he pairs applied mathematics training with a hacker’s attention to defensive production engineering.
11 years of coding experience