Serhii Popov is a seasoned Tech Team Lead and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience delivering custom web solutions for startups and enterprises from architecture through production. He combines deep problem-solving instincts with a preference for elegant, laconic code and modern stacks (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GraphQL/REST). As a co-founder and technical lead, he has led platform design, conducted technical due diligence, and mentored teams while staying hands-on with PHP and Node.js development. His open-source contributions include adding Ukrainian and Russian i18n and currency support to a popular number-to-words PHP library, highlighting attention to linguistic nuance and real-world internationalization challenges. Based in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Serhii is pragmatic about trade-offs and focused on rapid, well-crafted delivery of resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences at National Transport University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Number to string standalone PHP library with i18n. Drivers for numbers and currency included.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Serhii contributed to the internationalization (i18n) of the number-to-words library. They added support for Ukrainian and Russian languages, including the creation of currency transformers, number transformers, and associated tests. Their work involved implementing language-specific dictionaries and adapting the existing framework to handle different grammatical rules for number and currency formatting. These additions expanded the library's usability by supporting more languages.
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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