Samih Soylu
Senior PHP Back-end Engineer at TicketSwap
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSamih Soylu is a Senior PHP Back-end Engineer based in Amsterdam with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and hosting platforms. He has driven meaningful platform upgrades and automation—leading a PHP 7.2→8.0 migration with Rector, rebuilding CI/CD to GitHub Actions, and designing GraphQL and REST APIs for ticketing and VPS products. Samih pairs a craftsman’s eye for elegant, maintainable code with practical product focus, having improved onboarding, documentation, and developer tooling to make client testing safer and faster. Comfortable across Symfony, Magento, and custom platform work, he also led OpenStack adoption and rebuilt critical backend services for traffic monitoring. Colleagues know him for mentoring juniors and turning operational pain points into reusable utilities that accelerate teams.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree ICT Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree ICT Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied SciencesB Elektrotechniek Electrical and Electronic Engineering, B Elektrotechniek Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HAN University of Applied Sciences
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (48)
pixelfed10
laravel10
php10
api10
rest10
php-library10
command-line-interface9
photo9
federation9
activitypub9
cli9
rest-api9
dynamics-crm8
go8
pest8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
transip/tipctl
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
The command line interface for the TransIP API
Contributions:180 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 2 months
command-line-interfacetransipcliapirest
samihsoylu/backup-cron
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Backup cron is a simple tool that periodically makes backups of your website and database. Initially designed for a WordPress website, you can expect it to work on any web based project.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
wordpressphpweb-baseddatabasecron
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