Timur Zurbaev is a seasoned CTO with over a decade of commercial PHP experience, leading backend-first SaaS and RESTful API projects since 2011 and heading Zenky since 2017. He bridges architecture and delivery—designing monoliths and microservices, driving refactors, performance tuning, and CI/CD pipelines including self-hosted GitLab runners and Deployer-based deployments. Hands-on with PHP quality tooling (phpstan, TDD, PSR standards) and a pragmatic frontend practitioner using Vue.js/TypeScript and Tailwind, he also has mobile app experience with Ionic. Comfortable in Linux-based environments (Ubuntu) and Dockerized local stacks, he prefers pragmatic toolchains (PhpStorm, GitKraken) and cloud VPS providers for infrastructure. An intermittent open-source contributor with packages on Packagist/GitHub, he constantly sharpens craft via conference talks and engineering blogs. Based in Buryatia, Russia, he combines remote-work experience since 2016 with a pragmatic, efficiency-first engineering approach.
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