Samuel Demirdjian
Senior Software Engineer at Azusa Pacific University
Glendora, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Demirdjian is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a lifelong coder who began on an Atari 65XE. Based in Glendora, California, he specializes in pragmatic full‑stack web development on proven LAMP architectures, with deep familiarity in MVC/REST patterns and frameworks like Kohana and Symfony on the server and Backbone/Marionette in the browser. A long‑time open‑source maintainer and active GitHub collaborator, he has contributed core fixes to the Kohana framework, improving compatibility, profiling, and robustness. He pairs a security‑first mindset and disciplined test‑driven debugging with performance profiling to eliminate bottlenecks rather than papering over them. Comfortable leading teams and projects—having run his own web consultancy and served as IT manager for a regulated financial institution—he values clear communication, constructive peer review, and relentless problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
French Baccalaureate (Baccalauréat, Académie d'Aix-Marseille), Série scientifique (S), Specialization: Mathematics, French Baccalaureate (Baccalauréat, Académie d'Aix-Marseille), Série scientifique (S), Specialization: Mathematics at Hamazkayin Djemaran (M & H Arslanian) – Mezher, AnteliasBachelor's Degree, Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Economics at Jâmi'at Haikazian
Armenian, Arabic, English, French
Github Skills (8)
application-framework10
debugging10
app-framework10
web-framework10
debug10
php10
back-end-development10
testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kohana/core
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Core system classes from Kohana
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 287 commits, 60 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the core system classes of the Kohana framework. Their commits involved bug fixes, specifically addressing compatibility issues with HHVM and PHP's handling of null values. They also made improvements to the profiler views, correcting potential division by zero errors and ensuring proper styling, as well as fixing and improving code comments.
kohana
enov/Aurora
Apr 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:205 commits, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
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