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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
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, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, Redis
  • REST APIs and backend architecture
  • CDC architecture and data pipelines
  • Docker, CI/CD, Bitbucket Pipelines, Git
  • Clean Architecture, SOLID, microservices, monolith decomposition
  • Technical leadership and mentoring

Limited

Used in scoped work

  • JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS
  • Livewire

Conceptual

Architecture-level familiarity

  • Python, Node.js, TypeScript
  • Go
  • Kafka
  • AWS and Azure cloud services
  • MongoDB

Experience

Selected roles

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

· 3 yrs 2 mos
EveryMatrix

Senior Software Engineer

Led the extraction of data-intensive reporting functionality from a legacy monolith into a standalone microservice. Migrated analytical workloads from MySQL to ClickHouse, reducing complex queries from several minutes to a few seconds, and architected a custom MySQL-binlog-to-ClickHouse CDC service. Contributed to the decomposition strategy for an affiliate B2B platform with approximately 6–12 billion transactions and 40 million users.

  • PHP 8
  • Laravel 10+
  • ClickHouse
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • CDC
· 1 yr 6 mos
Apricode

Team Lead

Managed and mentored a team of 3–4 engineers through planning, task allocation, code reviews, and delivery. Defined architecture across e-commerce projects and designed web applications and REST APIs from scratch, including a CRM/CMS platform for residential property management.

  • PHP 7/8
  • Laravel 7+
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Leadership
  • Architecture
· 1 yr 2 mos
Devolon

Senior Backend Engineer

Developed and maintained API services using Clean Architecture and SOLID principles. Established CI/CD pipelines, contributed to core API design and payment functionality, refactored legacy code, and resolved performance bottlenecks.

  • PHP 7
  • Laravel 6+
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Clean Architecture
  • CI/CD
· 2 yrs 6 mos
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 5.6/7
  • Laravel 6+
  • Symfony
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • WebSockets
· 6 mos
TT-Soft

Junior Full Stack Developer

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

  • PHP 7
  • WordPress
  • Joomla
  • Drupal
  • MySQL

Selected engineering work

Code built to be reused.

Open-source packages from real integration and product needs.

Data infrastructure · CDC

MIGRES

MIGRES is my production-grade utility for MySQL to ClickHouse migration, built around a CDC-led architecture with schema-safe bootstrapping, backfill orchestration, checkpointing, and restartable replication. I focused it on practical cutover safety: low-risk transitions, operational observability, and predictable integrity checks across large data volumes.

View repository Back-office tooling · Laravel

Livewire Datatables

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

View repository Back-office tooling · Laravel

Laravel Rich Text Editor

A modern, secure rich-text editor stack for Laravel, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, and Livewire.

View repository AI tooling · Python

HY Text

AI agent skill for correct Armenian language quality in generated text.

View repository Back-office tooling · Laravel

Laravel Translation

Translation management utilities and workflow support for Laravel 10+ applications.

View repository Payments

Omnipay TelCell

A reusable Omnipay gateway driver for TelCell payment flows.

View repository Payments

Omnipay Ameriabank

A reusable Omnipay gateway driver designed for a clean Ameriabank integration.

View repository

More experiments and packages on GitHub.

Background

Education & languages

Education

State Engineering University of Armenia

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology · 2008 – 2014
Additional education: Ministry of Defence of Armenia – Communications and Information Technology · 2009 – 2010

Languages

Armenian · Russian · English

Native Armenian, native Russian, English B2.

Contact

Building something where backend quality really matters?

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