Stepan Anchugov
Senior Software Engineer at Moodle
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolStepan Anchugov is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-load PHP/Symfony applications and APIs, currently contributing at Moodle from Belgrade. He combines back-end expertise with practical front-end experience in React/Redux, which informs API design that is pleasant to consume. Stepan has repeatedly improved developer experience and delivery—optimizing builds from hours to minutes, introducing CI and code review workflows, and expanding static analysis and compatibility across PHP versions. He has hands-on experience with event sourcing, CQRS and state machines in critical systems such as order processing and data management platforms. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped improve Symfony docs and the widely-used SonataAdminBundle, focusing on clarity, best practices and maintainability. He prioritizes standards and tooling to make teams more productive, and has a track record of removing dead code safely using feature flags.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Bachelor's degree Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Ural Finance and Law Institute204, Elitary school
English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Serbian
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Github Skills (15)
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php10
rs10
restructuredtext10
symfony10
documentation10
symfony-ux10
console9
yaml9
symfony-bundle9
admin9
stream6
doctrine-orm6
fosrestbundle6
fosuserbundle6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sonata-project/SonataAdminBundle
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
The missing Symfony Admin Generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Stepan primarily contributed to documentation updates, code improvements, and bug fixes within the Sonata Admin Bundle. Their work involved refining documentation, fixing hyperlinks, and addressing deprecated method usages, ensuring the project's usability and maintainability. They made code adjustments, like fixing property accessor calls, and added/modified YAML configuration samples. The contributions showcase their focus on code quality and improving the developer experience.
adminadmin-ltebundlephpsymfony-bundle
symfony/symfony-docs
Nov 2014 - May 2016
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Stepan primarily contributed to the Symfony documentation repository. Their work focused on improving the clarity and accuracy of the documentation. The contributions include fixing typos, clarifying code examples, and adding new entries to the cookbook section for invoking other commands. Furthermore, the user refactored code and examples to adhere to the best practices for the framework.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
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