Arpad Szabo, Developer in Funchal, Portugal
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Arpad Szabo

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Bio

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.

Availability

Full-time

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

2017 - 2017
RaceOn (via Toptal)
  • Integrated Stripe Connect.
  • Fixed several bugs in the existing application.
Technologies: Laravel, PHP

Freelance Senior PHP Developer

2017 - 2017
Letsvyve (via Toptal)
  • Migrated the old codebase to the latest version of Laravel.
  • Created an admin dashboard with Laravel.
Technologies: PHP, Laravel

Freelance Senior PHP Developer

2016 - 2017
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.
Technologies: WordPress Development, Yii 2, CakePHP

Senior PHP Developer

2012 - 2017
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.
Technologies: Solr, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Laravel

Web Developer

2016 - 2016
PhishMe (via Toptal)
  • Developed new features for the PhishMe Community.
  • Integrated SSO for the PhishMe Community.
  • Cleaned up old stylesheets for the PhishMe Community.
Technologies: FreeMarker, Lithium, PHP

Web Developer

2004 - 2012
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.
Technologies: JavaScript, Symfony, MySQL, PHP, Symfony

Single.de

- One of the biggest dating portals in Germany.
- 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
1999 - 2005

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering

Technical University of Budapest - Budapest, Hungary

Libraries/APIs

REST API, Vue.js, Backbone.js, Stripe Development, Facebook SDK, Facebook API, jQuery

Tools

GitHub, Git, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Postman, Solr, FreeMarker, PhpStorm, Sublime Text 3, Jira, Subversion

Languages

PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML5, CSS3, PHP 8, Java, SCSS, Sass, Learner Style Sheets

Frameworks

Laravel, Lithium, Symfony, Symfony, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Slim, CakePHP, Yii 2, Ruby on Rails

Paradigms

Scrum Master Consulting, Agile Development, Object-oriented Programming, Continuous Integration (CI), Kanban Project Management, SEO, Agile Development

Platforms

MacOS, HubSpot Development, Docker, Windows Development, CentOS, Linux, Eclipse, WordPress Development, AWS

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL 10, Memcached, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Amazon S3, NoSQL

Other

APIs, Full-stack, Software Development, Back-end Developers, Data Structures

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