Nikola Poša
Senior PHP Developer at Chess.com
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolNikola Poša is a Senior PHP Developer and software architect with 12 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products across web, advertising, education, workforce management and gaming. He combines hands-on development at Chess.com with architectural leadership, championing Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture and Domain-Driven Design to deliver maintainable systems used by millions. Nikola has led teams and founded a consulting practice, driving technical standards, data integration overhauls and event-sourced architectures for high-performance imports and operations. A prolific PHP expert, he contributes to well-known open-source projects like Zend Framework (improving logging flexibility) and writes and speaks regularly about software craftsmanship. He brings a pragmatic Model-First approach to API and system design, pairing automated testing and CI/CD practices with deep operational knowledge of Linux, databases and distributed queues. Based in Belgrade, he blends mentoring and practical engineering to turn complex requirements into robust, testable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer programming, Web development, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer programming, Web development, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager at ICT College of Vocational StudiesComputer Science, Computer Science at ETS Rade Koncar
Serbian, English
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
logging10
zend-framework10
php10
filtering10
filter10
testing8
algorithm6
oop6
command-line-interface6
doctrine-orm6
docker6
backend6
docker-toolbox6
encapsulation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikola focused on enhancing the Zend Framework's logging capabilities by implementing a timestamp filter. They created a filter to allow filtering of log events based on their timestamps. The user fixed trailing spaces, addressed end-of-file issues, and added operator validation for the filter. This work improved the flexibility and robustness of the logging functionality.
zendzend-frameworkphpframeworkmodular
nikolaposa/handling-exceptional-conditions-slides
Oct 2017 - May 2019
:book: Slides for "Handling Exceptional Conditions with Grace and Elegance" talk
Contributions:2 PRs, 89 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
elegancehandlinggraceconditions
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