Sergey Barbushin
United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSergey Barbushin is a tech lead and architect with 13 years of experience building high‑load, failover‑ready web platforms and APIs, from payment aggregators and booking services to cryptocurrency exchanges and social networks. He consistently translates vague product requirements into robust technical specs and has hands‑on experience driving teams, CI/CD and AWS auto‑scaling environments while covering core services with extensive unit tests. A prolific open‑source maintainer, Sergey leads and hardens PHP libraries like php-imap and php-console and has contributed bug fixes and quality improvements to Matomo. He blends deep backend engineering, database/search optimizations and infrastructure automation with practical product delivery, often stepping in to design and implement features when product management is lacking. Based in the UK with an applied mathematics background, he’s particularly passionate about automation, failover strategies and pragmatic microservice design.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BC, Applied Mathematic and Process Control, BC, Applied Mathematic and Process Control at Saint Petersburg State University
English, Russian, poland
Stackoverflow
5,235reputation
2.8mreached
44answers
13questions
mysql
top-5%
php
top-5%
recursion
top-1%
Github Skills (21)
filehandle10
back-end-development10
imap10
analytics10
refactor10
recursion10
php10
attachment10
file-handling10
refactoring10
mysql9
testing9
e-mail9
privacy8
compatibility8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
barbushin/php-console
Oct 2013 - Sep 2019
Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 115 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sergey focused on improving the PHP Console library. Their contributions included adding an adapter for backward compatibility with older versions, introducing a new file storage option, and fixing multiple issues related to session handling and command-line mode detection. Furthermore, the user addressed encoding conversion problems and made code style adjustments. These changes aimed to improve the library's functionality, compatibility, and stability.
google-chromephp
barbushin/php-imap
Dec 2012 - Sep 2019
Manage mailboxes, filter/get/delete emails in PHP (supports IMAP/POP3/NNTP)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 148 commits, 77 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sergey primarily focused on maintaining and enhancing the `php-imap` library, a PHP library designed for managing mailboxes. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to attachments, encoding issues, and handling of mail headers. They refactored code, optimized memory usage, and added new functionalities to improve the overall robustness and usability of the library. The user's work also included addressing specific issues and implementing enhancements to the core IMAP functionalities.
imapnntpphppop3
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.