Alex Novikov
Chief Technology Officer at Podlodka
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Buchnev is a Chief Technology Officer based in Madrid with 13 years of hands-on experience in PHP development, DevOps and cloud-native infrastructure. As a Spiral Framework maintainer and active open-source contributor, he has worked across back-end (Cycle ORM, Laravel core) and front-end/admin UX (SleepingOwlAdmin, termwind), including upgrades for PHP 8.1 and cross-package migrations. He founded Buggregator and built SputnikCloud, showing an operator-founder instinct for developer-facing products and tooling. At Intruforce he leads R&D and cloud strategy, deploying Kubernetes, integrating advanced security tooling and applying AI to automate reporting and risk assessments while optimizing cloud costs. Known for blending product sensibility with code-level contributions, he routinely bridges community-driven projects and production systems to deliver secure, scalable services.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer science and engineering, Specialist, Computer science and engineering at Самарский Государственный Аэрокосмический Университет
English, Russian, Polish
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Github Skills (59)
dependency-management10
url-routing10
symfony610
integrate10
laravel510
datamapper10
highlight10
symfony510
testing10
laravel610
table-html10
syntax-highlighter10
css10
enterprise-integration10
application-integration10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
LaravelRUS/SleepingOwlAdmin
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
🦉 Administrative interface builder for Laravel (Laravel admin)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:71 releases, 710 commits, 286 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex appears to be involved in implementing and updating UI/UX components using CSS. Their work includes updates to the CSS file for Select2 components. The user's contributions point to making adjustments and implementing a specific styling, which suggests a focus on front-end development tasks within the project.
adminlaravel-crudinterface-builderphplaravel-admin
spiral/framework
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
High-Performance PHP Framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 275 reviews, 634 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the Spiral Framework's functionality by adding support for PHP 8.1 in the Dotenv bridge and migrating the project to the Cycle/Database package. They also refactored parts of the code to replace the spiral/database package with cycle/database, impacting multiple modules and components, including DataGrid and database commands. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring the Queue interfaces.
php-frameworkroadrunnerpsr-16spiralspiral-framework
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