Ciprian Marta

Senior PHP & Symfony Engineer with 10+ years of experience in backend development, enterprise systems, REST APIs, and microservices. Expert in Symfony 5/6, PHP 7/8, Doctrine ORM, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ, and scalable distributed architectures. Proven ability to design high-performance backend systems, optimize applications, and deliver maintainable, production-ready code.

Experienced in real-time applications, event-driven systems, and large-scale platforms handling more than 50,000 requests per minute. Strong background in code quality, refactoring, CI/CD, and technical mentoring.

Senior PHP & Symfony Developer / Freelance Consultant at Ciprian Marta PFA (2025-10 – Present)

• Developed a modern medical CRM platform using Symfony 6 and PHP 8.2.
• Built scalable backend modules, real-time communication features, and workflow automation – consultations, scheduling, invoicing, document generation.
• Performed system upgrades, refactoring, and performance optimization.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver maintainable full-stack solutions.

Senior PHP Engineer (Symfony focus & WordPress focus) at Accesa IT Systems (2021-03 – 2025-08)

• Designed and implemented microservices and REST APIs for an e-commerce platform with over 1 million clients.
• Built high-performance backend components supporting more than 50000 requests/minute.
• Integrated Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ into distributed architectures.
• Conducted code reviews, mentored developers, and improved backend architecture.
• Contributed to performance optimization and clean code initiatives.
• Accomplish tasks as Junior Java developer.

PHP Software Engineer at Banca Transilvania (2020-03 – 2021-03)

• Built a secure internal enterprise application from scratch, in Symfony, used by 8000+ employees.
• Delivered maintainable, scalable backend features aligned with banking requirements.
• Participated in architecture discussions and modernization initiatives.

PHP Software Engineer & Project Manager at Life Is Hard (2015-04 – 2020-03)

• Developed and maintained enterprise web applications for travel, transportation, ecommerce (with Sylius) and auction platforms.
• Coordinated project activities and collaborated with technical/business teams.
• Improved application quality through testing, debugging, and continuous optimization.

MBA – Babeș-Bolyai University (2004)

Bachelor's in hospitality management – Babeș-Bolyai University (2003)

Baccalaureate in Informatics – Informatics High School (1998)