Semyon Tokarev
Software Engineer at Justt
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSemyon Tokarev is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering teams, currently based in Cluj-Napoca. He has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices, introduced task queues and CI/CD practices, and shipped real-time features like chat using Node.js and Socket.io. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, he’s modernized UIs with React/Vue while maintaining deep expertise in PHP/Symfony ecosystems—evidenced by contributions fixing core behavior and adding tests to a Symfony 1.4 fork. A pragmatic problem-solver, he blends hands-on implementation (SSO, search, caching, payment integrations) with mentoring and architectural leadership. Colleagues describe him as smart and modest, with a knack for improving legacy systems without disrupting users.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Donetsk State University of informatics science and artificial intelligence
Русский, Украинский, Английский
Github Skills (3)
php10
unit-testing10
symfony10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfSymfony1/symfony1
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
[DEPRECATED -- Use Symfony instead] Fork of symfony 1.4 with DIC, form enhancements, latest Swiftmailer, better performance, composer compatible and PHP 8 support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Semyon primarily contributed to the Symfony 1.4 fork, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements within the framework's core components. Their work involved modifying existing code, including the `sfAction` and `sfValidatorSchema` classes, to address issues related to JSON rendering and numeric value handling. They also added unit tests to ensure the correctness of specific functionalities. The user's efforts demonstrate a strong understanding of the framework's internals and the ability to contribute to its maintenance and improvement.
better-performancebundlephpsymfony1symfony-bundle
zobzn/audio-repeater
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Loops a piece of an audio file - helps your child learn songs or poetry
Contributions:21 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
pieceloopsaudio-filesongsaudio
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