Urmuz Tagizade
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead CTO (US-based, Remote) at Toptal
Baku City, Azerbaijan
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Top SchoolUrmuz Tagizade is a Senior Software Engineer and remote CTO with 11+ years building scalable web and mobile systems, currently leading multi-team projects for a US-based company via Toptal. He specializes in PHP/Symfony backends, event-driven architectures (CQRS, Event Sourcing), and high-load optimizations using Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka and Elasticsearch. Equally comfortable in hands-on development and technical leadership, he architects API-first microservices, automates CI/CD pipelines with GitLab/GitHub Actions, and manages containerized infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform. His background includes long-term freelance delivery and institutional experience at the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, giving him both entrepreneurial agility and enterprise-grade process discipline. Notably, he has implemented RabbitMQ queues handling 100k+ messages daily and routinely reduces technical debt through targeted refactoring and system upgrades. Based in Baku, he combines deep system-level Linux expertise with a pragmatic, security-aware approach to building reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Western University
Russian, Azerbaijani, English
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Github Skills (6)
raw-data3
csv2
php2
yii2
xlsx1
excel1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Urmuz/Yii2-All-For-Development
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
yii2yii3
Urmuz/ASP.NET-MVC-CheatSheet
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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