Senior developer, distributed systems builder, and amateur roboticist.

I'm Tapas, a senior software developer based in Berlin. I build scalable backend systems and modern web applications — the kind that hold up in production, grow with your business, and are actually a pleasure to maintain.

Primary Stack

Go
PHP
Symfony
Laravel
PostgreSQL
Next.js
React
TypeScript
MongoDB
Redis
RabbitMQ
Docker

Building a PTO Calculator CLI in PHP

How I designed and built a flexible command-line tool for calculating remaining paid time off — with support for accrual policies, German public holidays, part-time workloads, and carry-over caps.

Refactoring the Gilded Rose Kata in PHP

The Gilded Rose Kata hands you a tangled legacy method and asks you to add a feature without breaking anything. Here is the problem, the constraints, and how I solved it with the Strategy pattern in PHP 8.

Work

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    Company
    Plenteous.ai
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    Senior Software Engineer
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    Company
    Snapform Limited
    Role
    Senior Software Engineer
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    Company
    Sappientia GmbH
    Role
    Software Engineer
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