Dariusz Cichowski

Software Developer for hire

What sort of code do you despise?

By this you are truly known.


Intro

Who am I?

Hello!

I'am a PHP developer and a board games enthusiast.
Few years back I became a huge Laravel Framework fan and I use it ever since.

For the past over a dozen years I worked for small business, big firms and on my own projects. I still enjoy writing code and want to keep it that way. Every week I learn something new that improves my work and that's really amazing. Lines of code should not only work properly but also can and should look pleasing to the eye. That's where the joy of programming come from.

Skills

Self esteem exercise
90%

PHP

90%

Laravel, Lumen

80%

Architecture (SOLID, DDD, REST)

70%

Symfony

75%

MySQL, PgSQL, MSSQL

65%

PHPUnit

66%

Git, bash, Docker, Redis, @OA

55%

HTML & JavaScript

44%

Perl

88%

Regular Expressions

Experience

Yes. I've been around.
Feb 2024 – now

Prime Car Management S.A.

Senior Software Developer

Gdańsk, Poland (remote)

It is happening now, so ask me when we meet.

July 2022 – Nov 2023

Pirxon S.A.

Senior Software Developer

Gdańsk, Poland (remote)

I was a part of a team responsible for developing Smart Reactor - web tool for managing clients and theirs charges, from evaluation to court cases. It was Lumen based application on Azure.

Sep 2021 – June 2022

Prime Car Management S.A.

Senior Software Developer

Gdańsk, Poland (remote)

I was backend developer responsible for masterlease.pl (plus few sibling sites) and all internal tools as well.

May 2019 – now

Self Employed

Software Developer

Internet, EU (remote)

I mostly create Lumen microservices and integrate them with existing, old systems.

Dec 2016 – Apr 2019

GetResponse

Software Developer

Gdańsk, Poland

I was writing (following DDD & event sourcing) and deploy (CI/CD, Git flow) code for our main application and all microservices (RESTfull & olders SOAP). Here I started to use daily: PHPUnit & Code Reviews. I have kept that habits.

Feb 2015 – Nov 2016

Satel Sp. z o.o.

PHP Developer

Gdańsk, Poland

I have developed & mantained internal web tools, such as translation platform. I have designed and coded solutions on my own, based on Laravel Framework and MySQL.

Apr 2010 – Feb 2015

Blue Services Sp. z o.o.

PHP Programmer

Sopot, Poland

I have participated in multiple projects for banks and insurance companies. Besides developing new projects I was responsible for both coding and client relations with ergohestia.pl.
The last project I have developed in Blue Services was sklep.laczynaspilka.pl.

Dec 2009 – Mar 2010

Blue Media S.A.

Junior PHP Programmer

Sopot, Poland

I have started here my career for Blue Media Group which I have continued in Blue Services since its creation.

2008 – 2009

ELAB Efektywna Komunikacja

Web Developer

Gdynia, Poland

I have worked in a small team on startup project slodkiezycie.pl and became its lead developer.

2006 – 2007

Madkom S.A.

Junior PHP Programmer

Gdynia, Poland

My first steps in PHP, Smarty, HTML and Java Script.

Education

Here the passion have started.
2002 – 2008

University of Gdansk

Computer science

Gdańsk, Poland

I have focused on gaining experience. That is why I have joined an active science club “Strateg”. Later I have founded and presided another club “Sigma”. I started working half-time since third year of studies.