Summary
Octavian M is a Technical Team Lead and senior PHP developer with 11 years of experience building and operating enterprise-grade web platforms from Brasov, Romania. He combines deep Symfony and API Platform expertise with hands-on skills in Doctrine, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch and containerized deployments using Docker, plus strong automated testing practices (PHPUnit, Codeception). Octavian has led teams and consulted across multiple companies while running his own firm, delivering payment integrations (Ogone/PayPal/Sisow), SOAP/REST/OData services and observability solutions using Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk and Grafana. Equally comfortable shipping backend systems and contributing to TypeScript/React frontends, he applies GitFlow across GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket to maintain reliable release processes. Practical, product-focused and entrepreneurial, he blends technical leadership with a track record of turning complex integrations into resilient, monitored services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dimitrie Cantemir High School
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
Romanian, English