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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Add copy buttons to all
 blocks\n(function() {\n function addCopyButtons() {\n document.querySelectorAll('pre code').forEach(function(codeBlock) {\n if (codeBlock.parentElement.hasAttribute('data-copy-added')) return;\n codeBlock.parentElement.setAttribute('data-copy-added', 'true');\n \n var btn = document.createElement('button');\n btn.textContent = 'Copy';\n btn.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;top:4px;right:4px;padding:2px 8px;font-size:11px;background:#4ecdc4;border:none;border-radius:4px;color:#1a1a2e;cursor:pointer;opacity:0.7;transition:opacity 0.2s;';\n btn.onmouseover = function() { this.style.opacity = '1'; };\n btn.onmouseout = function() { this.style.opacity = '0.7'; };\n btn.onclick = function() {\n navigator.clipboard.writeText(codeBlock.textContent).then(function() {\n btn.textContent = 'Copied!';\n setTimeout(function() { btn.textContent = 'Copy'; }, 1500);\n });\n };\n codeBlock.parentElement.style.position = 'relative';\n codeBlock.parentElement.appendChild(btn);\n });\n }\n \n addCopyButtons();\n \n // Re-run on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(addCopyButtons);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks");
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Force GitHub README to respect dark mode\n(function() {\n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '\n .markdown-body {\n color-scheme: dark light;\n }\n .markdown-body pre { background: #161b22 !important; }\n .markdown-body code { background: rgba(110, 118, 129, 0.4) !important; }\n .markdown-body table th, .markdown-body table td { border-color: #30363d !important; }\n .markdown-body img { background: #0d1117; }\n .markdown-body blockquote { border-left-color: #8b949e; }\n .markdown-body hr { border-color: #30363d; }\n ';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n})();", "GitHub Dark Mode README Fix"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:GitHub Dark Mode README Fix]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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    JavaScript

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Highlight search terms from Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing referrer\n(function() {\n var ref = document.referrer;\n var terms = [];\n \n if (ref.includes('google.com') || ref.includes('duckduckgo.com') || ref.includes('bing.com')) {\n var url = new URL(ref);\n var q = url.searchParams.get('q') || url.searchParams.get('p');\n if (q) {\n terms = q.split(/\\s+/).filter(function(t) { return t.length > 2; });\n }\n }\n \n if (terms.length === 0) return;\n \n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '.userscript-highlight { background: #fbbf24; color: #1a1a2e; padding: 1px 3px; border-radius: 2px; }';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n \n function highlight(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 3) { // text node\n var text = node.textContent;\n var found = false;\n terms.forEach(function(term) {\n var regex = new RegExp('(' + term.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\\]\\\\]/g, '\\\\') + ')', 'gi');\n if (regex.test(text)) {\n found = true;\n var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();\n var parts = text.split(regex);\n parts.forEach(function(part, i) {\n if (i % 2 === 0) {\n frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(part));\n } else {\n var span = document.createElement('span');\n span.className = 'userscript-highlight';\n span.textContent = part;\n frag.appendChild(span);\n }\n });\n node.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, node);\n }\n });\n } else if (node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) { // element\n var skipTags = ['SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'NOSCRIPT', 'TEXTAREA', 'INPUT', 'SELECT'];\n if (!skipTags.includes(node.tagName)) {\n Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(highlight);\n }\n }\n }\n \n highlight(document.body);\n \n // Re-highlight on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 3) highlight(node);\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Highlight Search Terms"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Highlight Search Terms]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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  3. Cakephp-Page-MarkerCakephp-Page-MarkerPublic

    PHP

  4. Javascript-Elevator-AppJavascript-Elevator-AppPublic

    JavaScript

, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "youtube.com"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); } })(); })();
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👋 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗿

Staff / Principal-Level Backend Engineer SymfonyLaravelDistributed & Long-Lived Systems

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁

I work on backend systems where correctness, clarity, and longevity matter more than speed of delivery. My focus is on designing architectures that can evolve safely over time, even as requirements, teams, and scale change.

Over the last 8+ years, I’ve built and stabilised production systems using Symfony and Laravel, across both greenfield builds and large legacy platforms.

────────────────────────────

𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆

I prefer systems that are easy to reason about, easy to change, and hard to misuse. I value explicit boundaries over clever abstractions, small reversible decisions over large irreversible ones, and observability over assumptions. Architecture should reduce cognitive load for the team, not increase it, and the best solutions are usually the simplest ones that still respect domain complexity and long-term operational reality.

────────────────────────────

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀

• Clean application of design patterns to reduce coupling and improve testability • Domain-Driven Design to align business language with system structure • CQRS-style separation where read and write concerns diverge under scale • Event-Driven Architecture for decoupled workflows and system resilience • Asynchronous jobs and background processing for long-running and failure-prone tasks • Well-defined service boundaries and contracts, including REST and SOAP APIs • Robust third-party service integrations with retries, idempotency, and failure handling

These techniques are applied pragmatically — not every system needs every pattern, but the right ones matter at the right time.

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 PHP | Symfony | Laravel | OOP | MVC / HMVC | REST & SOAP APIs

𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Event Queues | Background Workers | Messaging | Caching

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 MySQL | PostgreSQL | Schema Design | Query Optimisation | Migrations

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Git | Observability & Logging

────────────────────────────

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯

Public repositories here are representative, not exhaustive. They exist to show engineering approach, structure, and trade-offs, not polished commercial products.

Most real-world systems I’ve worked on are client-owned and private.

────────────────────────────

𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲

• Bias toward boring, predictable systems • Strong preference for explicit contracts and data flow • Comfortable owning architectural decisions and their consequences • Experienced in mentoring senior engineers and reviewing complex changes • Pragmatic about trade-offs between purity, delivery, and risk

────────────────────────────

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁

If you’re building a system that needs to operate reliably for years, not just launch successfully, feel free to reach out.

────────────────────────────

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