Abdellah Ramadan

Senior Backend Engineer with 9+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of deep specialization in Symfony, building API-first, secure, and scalable systems. Track record includes owning backend infrastructure for Placed, a major UK job platform, and delivering projects for clients across the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, and Canada. Strong background in Domain-Driven Design, event sourcing, and event-driven architecture, with extensive use of Symfony's EventDispatcher and Messenger components to model systems where every feature belongs to a clear domain.

Active open-source contributor to the Symfony core framework, Sulu CMS, and Bolt CMS, and author of several Symfony bundles published on Packagist and used in production.

PHP/Symfony/Pimcore Developer at TwoPeaks (2024-05 – 2024-10)

• Contributed to a SaaS product across the Laravel and Symfony stacks, integrating multiple third-party services via API
• Delivered client web projects on Pimcore, strengthening delivery speed and content-management workflows
• Built advanced data models and relationships in Laravel for larger, multi-team projects

PHP/Symfony Backend Developer at Placed (2021-01 – 2023-12)

Major UK job platform

• Owned core backend infrastructure for Placed's mobile app, applying Domain-Driven Design to deliver a fluid, intelligent candidate-to-company matching experience
• Built the employer-facing workflow for managing applications — filtering candidates, discarding unfit applicants, and scheduling interviews
• Contributed to a matching system that paired candidates with jobs and surfaced candidate suggestions to companies based on profile data
• Worked extensively within DDD and CQRS, using Symfony Messenger and EventDispatcher to dispatch domain events and pass messages to RabbitMQ queues
• Built custom serializers, server-rendered Twig templates, and internal admin panels across the backend

PHP/Laravel Developer at Suenert (2020-01 – 2020-12)

• Improved the onboarding flow by implementing social login, increasing signups and reducing time-to-signup
• Worked across Vue.js 2, Laravel, Stripe, and social authentication providers

PHP/Vue Developer at Makonjo Media (2019-01 – 2020-12)

• Built in-house web applications, including an internal requisition system, with Laravel
• Delivered client projects using Laravel and WordPress
• Worked across Vue.js for the frontend and Inertia.js as the Laravel–Vue adapter

Freelance Symfony/PHP Developer at Kings Digital

Financial services

• Delivered independent backend projects for clients in Belgium, Germany, France, and Canada, spanning API design, Symfony bundle development, and system integration