Nikola Lardev
Backend Enngineer at Home
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikola Lardev is a seasoned backend engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and customizing eCommerce platforms, particularly Magento and PHP-based systems. He has led and contributed to enterprise projects across agencies and commerce centers (Tryzens, Kinguin, Isobar, Reward Gateway) while running a long-standing freelance practice delivering tailored Magento and Laravel solutions. A certified Magento 2 / Adobe Cloud developer and founder of Magento Bulgaria, Nikola also contributes to the official Magento 2 repository—focusing on localization and region data—underscoring attention to global commerce details that often go overlooked. Comfortable from theming and extension development to backend data patches, he blends practical open-source contributions with client-facing delivery. Based in Sofia, he brings a pragmatic mix of framework versatility (Zend, Laravel, Yii) and front-end chops (PSD-to-XHTML, JS/CSS) that accelerates cross-discipline projects. Colleagues rely on him for reliable, commerce-focused engineering and rare expertise in the nuances of international store data and localization.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of Sofia
English, Bulgarian
Stackoverflow
131reputation
13kreached
9answers
0questions
Github Skills (12)
database-management10
php10
magento10
ecommerce9
wamp6
html6
sql6
database-backups6
jquery6
command-line6
mysql6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
magento/magento2
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
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Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikola primarily contributed to adding and updating region data for various countries within the Magento 2 e-commerce platform. Their work involved creating data patches to populate the database with state/region information for countries like Sweden, Portugal, and Greece. Further contributions included fixing typos and updating existing regional data. This suggests a focus on data management and localization aspects of the e-commerce application.
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nikolalardev/magento2-blog
May 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:16 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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