Mihai Leu is a Tech Lead based in Bucharest with 15+ years of experience designing scalable backend systems and growing high-performing engineering teams, currently shaping architecture and cloud strategy at eMAG. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PHP/Symfony, microservices, event-driven architectures and AWS/Terraform with product-minded decision making to translate complex business needs into resilient, maintainable platforms. Mihai led monolith-to-microservice decompositions, introduced infrastructure-as-code across teams, and pioneered microfrontend patterns that reduced duplication and accelerated delivery. He also mentors engineers, runs architecture guilds and designs training programs to raise organizational technical maturity. An open-source contributor, he improved Symfony’s RabbitMQ bundle for newer PHP and Symfony versions and raised code quality via tests and static analysis—showing a pragmatic focus on long-term maintainability.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Studies, Managing Informatics, Master Studies, Managing Informatics at Universitatea Româno-Americană din București
high school diploma, Mathematics - Informatics, high school diploma, Mathematics - Informatics at Liceul Teoretic Alexandru Marghiloman Buzau
Contributions:22 releases, 36 reviews, 73 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mihai contributed to the Symfony-based RabbitMQ bundle, improving compatibility with different PHP versions (5.3, 7.3, and 7.4) and Symfony versions (5). Their work included updating test suites to be compatible with PHPUnit 8 and adding PHPStan for static analysis. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the code to align with PSR12 coding standards, improving overall code quality and maintainability. The changes focused on testing, configuration, and adapting the bundle to work seamlessly with new versions of PHP and Symfony.
Contributions:14 releases, 13 reviews, 14 commits in 1 year 3 months
bundlephpsymfonyrabbitmqweb-framework
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