Patrik Fuhrmann Software Engineer

Experienced software engineer with main interests in distributed systems. Currently specialising in PHP and MySQL driven systems, and recently exploring Go language as a future career endeavour. I possess full fluency in JavaScript and familiarity with Node.js and NoSQL backends. Furthermore, my in-depth knowledge of the cloud system management allows me to perform administration on various servers. Lastly, in my leadership experience, I was in charge of software development teams and responsible for the technical delivery of web properties.

Specialization: LEMP / LAMP, writing OO code, developing and interfacing with REST APIs, SQL profiling and optimization

Tools: Symfony / Laravel PHP frameworks, Git, JSON , PHPUnit / Behat / Mink, ORM, MVC

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum & Kanban), BDD (Behaviour-driven development), TDD (Test-driven development)

Databases: MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kyoto Tycoon, MongoDB

February 2018 - Present

Software Engineer

SO Connect | Amsterdam, NL

• SO Connect bridges the gap between offline and online

October 2017 - January 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Docler Holding | Amsterdam, NL

• Company announced ceasing operations in the Netherlands few weeks after I joined
• Involved in the significantly delayed project of introducing new performer category which was successfully delivered within few weeks I joined
• Fixing security-related issues (XSS, CSRF etc.)
• Working on multiple PHP microservices as well as core codebase

May 2017 - September 2017

Senior Software Engineer

Mercari | London, UK

• Largest mobile marketplace in Japan with over 60 million downloads worldwide
• Working on the microservices written in PHP7 (Symfony3) and golang
• Utilised Go language for the basic image recognition service API to filter low quality items
• Creating automation to upload facebook custom audiences through the latest Graph API
• Ensuring microservices follow standards and are deployable to Google Container Engine (GKE)
• Developing cross-region features (UK, JP, US) in a kanban team with customer retention focus

October 2016 - April 2017

Web Engineer

Cloudflare | London, UK

• The web performance and security company
• Part of the larger group of engineers in the front-facing team
• Developed WebP API integration with the Cloudflare’s edge systems
• Various improvements to the internal “page rules” engine
• Working with many technologies such as Docker, Kyoto Tycoon, Redis etc.
• Server-side work on the scaling of the PostgreSQL database (master/slave replication)
• Creating and maintaining APIs with lot of traffic (1 billion+ req/month)

February 2015 - September 2016

Technical Lead

babylon health | London, UK

• Largest doctor-on-demand startup in the UK
• Started as lead PHP developer and promoted after 10 months to the tech lead
• Leading technical efforts of the Predictive Analytics team
• Responsible for the hiring of new engineers i.e. PHP, Python and data scientists
• Creating development standards and best practices followed across the team
• Building out the architecture to support the critical delivery of the AI Predictive Analytics platforms
• Onboarding and mentoring engineers to ensure quality and timely delivery

March 2014 - January 2015

Senior PHP Developer (Symfony)

LendInvest | London, UK

• LendInvest is leading online lender for short-term property finance
• Transforming legacy code from CodeIgniter to Symfony2 framework
• Greenfield project to rewrite P2P lending platform, both borrower and investor portals
• Creating BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) testing suite using Behat 3
• Integration of internal system with Amazon S3 storage service
• Part of the bigger agile team, using lightweight Scrum methodology and some practices from XP
• Redesigned system was successfully launched in December 2014

January 2013 - December 2013

Software Engineer

entrago | London, UK

• Early-stage startup, celebrity channels for fans
• Rewriting API from Node.js to PHP (Laravel 4.2)
• Maintaining CMS built on top of Node.js (Hatch.js framework)
• Working with sizeable Redis database (~100+ GB)
• Enhancing analytics system based on the PHP Zend Framework 2 with Predis
• Development done under agile environment (Kanban)

December 2011 – September 2012

PHP Developer

Primrose.co.uk | Reading, UK

• One of the largest UK online gardening retailer
• Maintained multiple eCommerce systems as part of the Agile team (Scrum)
• Finding bottlenecks in performance by profiling/debugging PHP code (Xdebug, KCacheGrind) and MySQL queries. As a result, we went from 1600+ SQL queries on each page to less than 400 per page.
• Created reporting back-end system that was used for monitoring of the team performance
• Developed custom payment plugin which was successfully deployed on several e-Shops around the Europe

2012 – 2015

University of Greenwich

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, 1st Class

Dissertation: Software Design Patterns in the NFC Android Development