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Senior Backend Engineer · Team Lead

I build backend systems that stay fast as complexity grows.

I turn data-heavy product requirements and legacy constraints into reliable PHP/Laravel platforms—then help small engineering teams ship them with confidence.

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  • Yerevan, Armenia · Remote
Arman Khachatryan, Senior Backend Engineer and Team Lead
8+years in
software engineering

Profile

Backend depth.
Product perspective.

I am a backend-focused software engineer with hands-on experience across architecture, implementation, technical leadership, and production support. My strongest work sits where business-critical data, performance, and maintainability meet.

I have led teams of 3–4 engineers, decomposed monoliths, modernized legacy systems, and designed reporting pipelines for high-volume environments. I stay close to the code while creating enough clarity for a team to move faster.

Impact

Selected professional impact

Minutes → seconds

Reduced report generation time by redesigning query and data-access patterns.

3–4 engineers

Led focused delivery teams through planning, reviews, mentoring, and releases.

Legacy → scalable

Separated domains and introduced services without destabilizing active products.

Expertise

Honest about depth.
Curious beyond it.

I distinguish production experience from technologies I have used in a limited scope or studied conceptually.

Professional

Production strengths

  • PHP, Laravel, Symfony
  • MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis
  • REST APIs and backend architecture
  • CDC architecture and data pipelines
  • High-volume analytics and reporting
  • Legacy modernization and monolith decomposition
  • Technical leadership and mentoring

Limited

Used in scoped work

  • JavaScript and Vue.js
  • Docker and CI/CD workflows
  • Elasticsearch
  • AI-assisted Python implementation

Conceptual

Architecture-level familiarity

  • Python, Node.js, TypeScript
  • Go
  • Kafka and event-streaming concepts
  • Cloud-native system design

Experience

Selected roles

A progression from hands-on full-stack delivery to backend specialization and team leadership.

EveryMatrix

Senior Backend Engineer

Built and optimized data-intensive reporting capabilities in a high-load environment. Improved slow reporting flows from minutes to seconds, designed a custom MySQL-binlog-to-ClickHouse CDC service, and directed its AI-assisted Python implementation.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • ClickHouse
  • MySQL
  • CDC
  • Analytics
Apricode

Team Lead

Led a small engineering team across estimation, architecture, code review, mentoring, delivery, and stakeholder communication while remaining hands-on in backend development.

  • Leadership
  • Architecture
  • Laravel
  • Code review
MentroCliq · Project-based

Software Engineer

Owned bot functionality and helped shape backend logic and integrations in a Node.js and TypeScript product, working at solution level alongside the product team.

  • Bot integration
  • Backend logic
  • Node.js · limited
  • TypeScript · limited
Devolon

Senior Backend Engineer

Developed and maintained API services using Clean Architecture and SOLID principles. Contributed to core API design, established CI/CD pipelines, and refactored legacy code to improve maintainability.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • PostgreSQL
  • Clean Architecture
  • AWS
Digex

Backend Engineer

Designed and built web applications and APIs across client projects, provided architectural guidance, and resolved performance bottlenecks in high-traffic scenarios.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • Performance
IFC Markets

Full Stack Web Engineer → Team Lead

Built APIs and web applications for a fintech platform, implemented a WebSocket live-chat system, integrated payment gateways, and later coordinated a team of 3–4 engineers while addressing critical security issues.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Symfony
  • WebSockets
  • Team leadership
TT-Soft

Full Stack Developer

Delivered custom websites and CMS-based client solutions, including bespoke plugins, themes, and extensions tailored to business requirements.

  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • Joomla
  • Drupal
  • MySQL

Selected engineering work

Code built to be reused.

Focused open-source packages from real integration and product needs.

Open source · Laravel

Livewire Datatables

A configurable server-side datatable package for Laravel Livewire, built for expressive querying and practical product use.

View repository Payments

Omnipay Telcell

A reusable Omnipay gateway integration for Telcell payment flows.

View repository Payments

Omnipay Ameriabank

A PHP payment gateway package designed for a clean Ameriabank integration.

View repository Developer tooling

Youtuber for Laravel

A Laravel package for working with YouTube-oriented application flows.

View repository

More experiments and packages on GitHub.

Background

Education & languages

Education

National Polytechnic University of Armenia

Master’s degree, Radio Engineering and Communications · 2014—2020

Languages

Armenian · Russian · English

Native Armenian, fluent Russian, professional working English.

Contact

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