Samih Soylu
Senior PHP Back-end Engineer at TicketSwap
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSamih Soylu is a Senior PHP Back-end Engineer based in Amsterdam with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and hosting platforms. He has driven meaningful platform upgrades and automation—leading a PHP 7.2→8.0 migration with Rector, rebuilding CI/CD to GitHub Actions, and designing GraphQL and REST APIs for ticketing and VPS products. Samih pairs a craftsman’s eye for elegant, maintainable code with practical product focus, having improved onboarding, documentation, and developer tooling to make client testing safer and faster. Comfortable across Symfony, Magento, and custom platform work, he also led OpenStack adoption and rebuilt critical backend services for traffic monitoring. Colleagues know him for mentoring juniors and turning operational pain points into reusable utilities that accelerate teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree ICT Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree ICT Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied SciencesB Elektrotechniek Electrical and Electronic Engineering, B Elektrotechniek Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (59)
journal10
photo10
pixelfed10
laravel10
api10
organize10
api-client9
command-line-interface9
knife9
development-tools9
rest9
federation9
php9
activitypub9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samihsoylu/journal
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Journal is a privacy first, self hosted digital log book. It is designed to be accessible anywhere you go, allowing you to organize your thoughts, feelings and opinions in one place.
Contributions:18 releases, 19 reviews, 293 commits in 3 years 3 months
placereactfeelingsprivacy-firstopinions
samihsoylu/backup-cron
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Backup cron is a simple tool that periodically makes backups of your website and database. Initially designed for a WordPress website, you can expect it to work on any web based project.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
wordpressphpweb-baseddatabasecron
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