Summary
Michael Radionov is a seasoned CTO and senior PHP engineer with 10 years of experience leading a web development company and guiding teams of up to 10 developers through 300+ projects. He specializes in high-scale PHP systems (Laravel, WordPress), Dockerized LEMP deployments, and test-driven development, having built REST APIs, news portals serving millions of users, and complex e-learning platforms. Michael combines deep hands-on expertise—composer packages, regex mastery, Xdebug profiling and Bash automation—with operational practices like GitFlow, CI/CD (his in-house Pullkins), and Jira-integrated workflows. He is an active technical author, speaker and open-source maintainer who contributes to PHP and Docker ecosystems and has built tooling used across his teams. Trained as an engineer-physicist, he brings a disciplined, edge-case-aware approach to architecture and debugging, often spotting non-obvious failure modes before they surface.
11 years of coding experience
Engineer Physicist, Nuclear Physics, Master's Degree, Engineer Physicist, Nuclear Physics, Master's Degree at Ural State Technical University