Alexandru Pătrănescu
Coding Architect at PayU
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAlexandru Pătrănescu is a Coding Architect with 14 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, service-oriented systems at PayU in Bucharest. He combines deep PHP expertise—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the widely used myclabs/php-enum library—with solid Java knowledge and hands-on work across Python, NodeJS, C, and emerging languages. At PayU he guides architectural direction, drives refactoring and performance initiatives, and promotes engineering best practices like CI/CD, tested code, SOLID and pragmatic FP patterns. He’s comfortable across the stack from relational and NoSQL datastores to RabbitMQ, Docker/Swarm and Kubernetes, and pairs platform thinking with day-to-day coding in scrum teams. Passionate about open source and knowledge sharing, he actively refactors libraries for performance and reliability while mentoring teams on scalable, testable designs.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice BucurestiColegiul National "Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica"
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Github Skills (12)
php10
performance-optimization10
enums10
refactor9
refactoring9
unit-testing9
git6
mamp6
android6
decoding6
encoding6
pear6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
myclabs/php-enum
Feb 2015 - Dec 2021
The enum PHP is missing, inspired from SplEnum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily focused on optimizing the `php-enum` library. They refactored and improved performance by removing unnecessary code, optimizing the `getKey` method, and caching values. The user also made changes to the `Enum` class, including modifying the access level of the `assertValidValue` method and addressing issues related to deserialization. In addition, the user implemented tests and improved existing ones.
phpenumphp-enum
drealecs/php-src
Feb 2019 - Jul 2026
The PHP Interpreter
Contributions:74 pushes, 119 branches in 7 years 5 months
php73phpinterpreter
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