Serhii Svyrydenko
Development Team Lead at Westland Insurance Group Ltd.
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSerhii Svyrydenko is a development team lead based in Whitby, Ontario with nine years of professional software experience, recently promoted within Westland Insurance Group. He brings deep back-end and database expertise, demonstrated by sustained open-source contributions to the high-performance Phalcon PHP framework—improving foreign-key handling, adapters, and unit tests for MySQL/PostgreSQL. His career spans fintech and SaaS environments (Wirex, PDFfiller) where he focused on robust data integrations and tooling, and he combines hands-on coding with QA-minded improvements. Comfortable leading teams while still shipping code, Serhii pairs a specialist engineering education with a practical track record of tightening database reliability and developer tooling in production systems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (22)
database-migrations10
phalcon10
unit-testing10
database-api10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
mysql10
databases10
devtools10
php10
sql10
database-migration10
backend10
database10
extjs9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/forum
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Phalcon official Forum
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:110 commits, 87 PRs, 43 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Serhii primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Phalcon forum. Their work focused on modifying core functionalities, including adjusting the karma system, modifying how posts are deleted, and altering the behavior of replies. Furthermore, the user addressed PHQL queries, fixed URL handling within posts and implemented support for `<ins>` and `<del>` HTML tags for text formatting. In addition, the user corrected the handling of special characters.
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phalcon/phalcon-devtools
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Phalcon Developer Tools
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 103 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year
Contributions summary:Serhii primarily focused on improving the Phalcon Developer Tools project by fixing issues related to the generation of CSS and JavaScript files, migration data in the browser, and foreign key handling. They also implemented enhancements, such as adding exception messages in the MigrationsController and allowing hyphenated table names. Furthermore, the user addressed project name issues, implemented improvements for model generation, and added features like a template engine option for the project command.
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