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Aleksandr Verkhoturov
Senior Backend Engineer · Prague
BACKEND · PHP · RELIABILITY

Senior Backend Engineer for integrations, async systems, and reliable production systems.

Commercial PHP backend development since August 2013

Backend engineer with experience from Yii monolith product development to Laravel services. Main areas of work include provider and payment integrations, transaction flows, async processing, incident investigation, and safe production changes.

PHP, Laravel, Yii Kafka, RabbitMQ MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD
LinkedIn: @alexver
Current position
Backend Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer · Homo Developus s.r.o.
Aug 2013 - Present
Backend and infrastructure illustration
Scope: internal platform services and async workflows
Architecture: Yii monolith and Laravel services
WORK EXPERIENCE
Progression from product backend work to senior backend work focused on reliability.
Backend Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer
Homo Developus s.r.o.
Aug 2013 - Present
  • Delivered backend functionality across a range of product, administrative, and API-related modules.
  • Implemented and maintained payment and provider integrations, including transaction flows, refunds, migrations, and operational fixes.
  • Improved data consistency through schema changes, denormalization, transaction cleanup, UUID/GUID propagation, and legacy path cleanup.
  • Built and hardened event-driven flows with listeners, Kafka consumers/producers, resend mechanisms, fallback handling, and diagnostic logging.
  • Contributed to observability and production support through health checks, structured logging, OpenTelemetry-related work, and incident investigation.
  • Worked on Redis/cache strategy, async worker reliability, and deployment-aware backend changes.
  • Developed internal migration and operational tooling for safer production changes.
Career Progression
Homo Developus
  • 2013-2016: product backend across multiple platform and administrative modules.
  • 2017-2021: integrations, transaction consistency, schema evolution, migrations, and event-driven flows.
  • 2022-2026: senior backend work across Laravel services, Kafka, Redis/cache, observability and worker reliability.
Backend PHP Developer
PERSPEKTIVA IMPEREAL s.r.o.
May 2013 - Aug 2013
  • Implemented new backend functionality.
  • Fixed bugs and improved existing functionality.
SKILLS
Technical skills used in production work.
Technical skills
Core
  • PHP, Laravel, Yii
Async & messaging
  • Kafka, RabbitMQ
  • Async consumers, producers, listeners
Data
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
  • SQL tuning, schema changes, migrations
Platform & delivery
  • Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD
  • REST APIs, microservices, deployment-aware changes
Engineering
  • Testing, observability, incident investigation
  • Performance analysis, troubleshooting, internal tools
  • Git, Jira, PHPUnit, Kibana, Elasticsearch
  • AI-assisted coding, debugging, and testing
Soft skills & languages
Soft skills
  • Deep problem and domain analysis
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Mentoring
  • Troubleshooting
Languages spoken
  • Russian - Native
  • English - A2-B1
  • Czech - Advanced (B2)
SIDE PROJECTS
Personal initiative outside of full-time work.
Art brand
NewOldArtsy
Digital art and merch: posters, stickers and prints in geek and neon aesthetics. Sold via online marketplaces, with a dedicated microsite (noa.alexver.dev) as a showcase.
Open NewOldArtsy microsite ->
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATES
Formal education, nostrification and Czech language certificates.
Information Systems and Technology
Bratsk State University
2006 - 2011
  • Improved programming and teamwork skills.
  • Developed information systems with database architecture, UI, and business logic.
  • Built an information system for recording production downtimes using CouchDB.
Courses & certificates
Czech language & diploma nostrification
  • P.E.C. certificate in Czech language (C1).
  • UJOP UK certificate in Czech language (B2).
  • Intensive Czech language course at P.E.C.
  • Nostrification of diploma by CVUT with Ing. qualification.