Backend engineeringPrague, CZ ↗
Aleksandr
Verkhoturov.
Senior Backend Engineer[ / ]
Integrations. Async systems.
Reliable production.
PHP / BACKEND / SINCE 2013
_//: PROFILE+
From Yii monoliths to Laravel services. Building the backend that keeps products moving.
- Based in
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Commercial PHP
- Since August 2013
- Currently at
- Homo Developus s.r.o.
Let's connect_//: LINKEDIN / @ALEXVER↗
Experience
_//: WORK HISTORY↙
Aug 2013 — PresentCurrent position
Homo Developus s.r.o.
Backend Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer
Product backend, provider integrations, and internal platform services. A long-term focus on data consistency and reliable asynchronous workflows.
- Delivered backend functionality across product, administrative, and API-related modules.
- Implemented payment and provider integrations: 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 Kafka consumers and producers, listeners, resend mechanisms, fallback handling, and diagnostic logging.
- Contributed to health checks, structured logging, OpenTelemetry-related work, and production 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 ↘
- 2013–2016
Product backendPlatform and administrative modules.
- 2017–2021
Integrations & dataTransactions, schema evolution, migrations, and event-driven flows.
- 2022–2026
Services & reliabilityLaravel, Kafka, Redis/cache, observability, and async workers.
May 2013 — Aug 2013
PERSPEKTIVA IMPEREAL s.r.o.
Backend PHP Developer
Implemented new backend functionality, fixed bugs, and improved existing features.
Education
_//: BACKGROUND & CERTIFICATES↙
2006 — 2011Information Systems and Technology
Bratsk State University
- Developed information systems with database architecture, UI, and business logic.
- Built a production downtime tracking system using CouchDB.
- Improved programming and teamwork skills.
Courses & certificates
- Ing.Diploma nostrification by CVUT
- C1P.E.C. Czech language certificate
- B2UJOP UK Czech language certificate
- PECIntensive Czech language course