Arpad Szabo
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Arpad has been working as a full-stack web developer since 2004. He has good problem-solving skills and works equally well on his own as well as part of a team. He is keen to use the latest technologies to build any kind of web applications from single-page applications to enterprise solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Sublime Text 3, PhpStorm, Postman, Git, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...website I've ever worked on was a dating portal built with different technologies to serve many thousands of users.
Work Experience
Freelance Senior Full-stack Developer
RaceOn (via Toptal)
- Integrated Stripe Connect.
- Fixed several bugs in the existing application.
Freelance Senior PHP Developer
Letsvyve (via Toptal)
- Migrated the old codebase to the latest version of Laravel.
- Created an admin dashboard with Laravel.
Freelance Senior PHP Developer
ILF Mobile Apps (via Toptal)
- Upgraded Herosearches.com to PHP 7 and refactored the codebase.
- Integrated Stripe API and Pipl API into Herosearches.com.
- Implemented new features for the back end of DDIutilities.com.
Senior PHP Developer
Freenet.de Gmbh
- Developed a REST API to serve the single-page web application and mobile apps.
- Wrote integration tests to ensure the proper operation of the REST API.
- Used Gearman to distribute non-real-time tasks between multiple servers to process them faster asynchronously.
- Utilized Solr to provide lightning-fast search results.
- Integrated PubNub service for real-time notifications.
Web Developer
PhishMe (via Toptal)
- Developed new features for the PhishMe Community.
- Integrated SSO for the PhishMe Community.
- Cleaned up old stylesheets for the PhishMe Community.
Web Developer
Wiera Kft
- Developed and maintained the company website.
- Created a reusable web shops module using Symfony.
- Built multiple web shops based on the above-mentioned module.
- Provided continuous support for the already-built web shops.
Experience
Single.de
- I've been working in the back-end team as a senior developer to develop and maintain the server side environment including the REST API to provide a unified interface for the front-end application and for the Android and iOS applications.
Used technologies: PHP, MySQL, Solr, Gearman, Jenkins
Skills
Languages
PHP 7, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, Java, SCSS, Sass, Less
Frameworks
Laravel, Lithium, Symfony, Symfony 2, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Slim, CakePHP, Yii 2, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Vue, Backbone.js, Stripe, Facebook SDK, Facebook API, jQuery
Tools
GitHub, Git, Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket, Postman, Solr, FreeMarker, PhpStorm, Sublime Text 3, Jira, Subversion (SVN)
Paradigms
Scrum, Agile Software Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Continuous Integration (CI), Kanban, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
MacOS, HubSpot, Docker, Windows, CentOS, Linux, Eclipse, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL 10, Memcached, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), NoSQL
Other
APIs, Full-stack, Software, Back-end, Data Structures, PHP 8
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
Technical University of Budapest - Budapest, Hungary
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