PHP / Shopware Developer

Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop easy-to-manage and configurable Shopware plugins, and build additional functions for Shopware platform projects to address specific business needs.
• Fully migrate existing Shopware 5 plugins to a brand new Shopware 6 system.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Actively contributed to creating a powerful content management system (CMS) to serve as an interface for clients using the Symfony framework.
• Launched Related engine microservice returns related articles, VODs, and quizzes based on giving input, using Farasa library that processes any Arabic language text using segmentation, lemmatisation, and ignoring stop words.
• Achieved a reusable code structure with CMS that supports multiple projects.
• Developed RESTful APIs to handle and transfer data and added Swagger OpenAPI annotations to document the existing APIs to mobile app developers quickly. Any new developer may join the team.
• Set up an API token authentication system using Symfony Custom Authentication System with Guard to ensure that each request is accompanied by a signed token which the server verifies for authenticity and only then responds to the request.
• Assisted in upgrading the CMS version from Symfony 3.4 to 4.4.
• Integrated Redis database to create quick access to any needed configuration for the web app.
• Helped in designing an extensive graph database (Neo4j) to store the live matches score results, teams, players, and stadium details for the Eurosport Arabia website.
• Built hierarchical roles/permissions system to handle any data modification made by the backend editors.
• Created Doctrine (ORM) entity classes using annotations to specify Doctrine meta-data and relationships after designing MySQL database tables.
• Used Doctrine’s Entity Manager to store object data and Doctrine repositories to retrieve and filter data.
• Used RabbitMQ (Message-queueing software) to reduce loads and delivery times by delegating tasks that would typically take up a lot of time or resources to a third party with no other job.
• Integrated Webpack Encore for managing the frontend assets and minifying the CSS and JavaScript files.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Developed a Swiss transport platform between one advertiser and several carriers on the Zend framework and fully designed the MySQL database tables based on the project and the client requirements.
• Developed custom modules using Zend Forms, Validations, and Layouts.
• Worked on multilingual e-commerce website based on Prestashop platform, customised the theme, plugins, modules, and various functionality set all the requested payment gateway.
• Became familiar with the limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds.
• Designed and built a WordPress theme from scratch and created several plugins based on the client’s requirements.
• Created WordPress custom post type and transformed the WordPress site from a blogging platform into a powerful Content Management System (CMS).
• Created Visual Composer custom elements from the design to the functionality.
• Wrote detailed SEO reports to the existing websites and pointed out all of the SEO errors that need to fix in order to increase the websites’ rankings.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and managed websites using WordPress in accordance with customers’ needs.
• Participated in developing an Android Application with Java programming language using Android Studio IDE, including needed RESTful APIs development.