Hammouda Aymen — Senior PHP / Symfony Developer Freelance

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Senior PHP / Symfony freelance developer with over 14 years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining web applications and APIs. Technical lead: consulting and guidance on architecture (DDD, Clean Architecture) and project structuring. Specialized in application migration and modernization, REST API development and automated testing.

Languages

🇫🇷	French / fluent
🇹🇳	Arabic / native
🇬🇧	English / professional

Technical Skills

Languages	PHP (5 to 8), JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS
Frameworks	Symfony (2 to 6.4), jQuery
Architecture	DDD, Clean Architecture, Microservices, REST API, SOAP
Databases	MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB
Testing	PHPUnit, Codeception, TestCafe
DevOps	Docker, PHP Deployer, Apache, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch
Version Control	Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN
Methodologies	Agile Scrum, Waterfall (V-cycle)

Professional Experience

October 2025 — Present

Senior PHP Developer — Freelance

Lenewblack — Paris

Autonomous technical lead: architecture consulting and project structuring.

Design and development of new business features under Symfony 6 / PHP 8.
Technical support and production anomaly resolution.
Code and MySQL query optimization to improve performance.
Deployment process maintenance via PHP Deployer, migration to version 7.

Stack : PHP 8 Symfony 6 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery MySQL MongoDB Git PHP Deployer

Lenewblack.com — B2B SaaS wholesale platform for the fashion industry.

March 2021 — September 2025

Senior PHP Developer

Lenewblack — Paris · Permanent

Mentoring a team of 2-3 developers on architecture and project structuring.

Proposing DDD and Clean Architecture choices, validated with the technical lead.
Major migration from Symfony 3 → 6.4 and PHP 7.1 → 8.1, reducing page load times from ~6s to ~2s.
Application architecture overhaul following DDD and Clean Architecture principles.
Centralized logging with Monolog and MongoDB, automated functional testing with TestCafe.

Stack : PHP 8 Symfony 6 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery MySQL MongoDB Git PHP Deployer

Lenewblack.com — B2B SaaS wholesale platform for the fashion industry.

October 2018 — September 2020

Confirmed PHP Developer

AnyCommerce by ChapsVision — Paris · Permanent

Junior developer mentoring and onboarding of new team members.

Redesign of sales management modules under Symfony 4 / PHP 7.4.
API web service design and documentation with OpenAPI.
Unit and functional test strategy with PHPUnit.
Asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ and Redis cache optimization.

Stack : PHP 7.4 Symfony 4 DDD PHPUnit RabbitMQ Redis OpenAPI MySQL Docker GitLab

AnyCommerce API — commercial management API for an omnichannel retail SaaS editor.

April 2018 — September 2018

Confirmed PHP Developer

LAB5COM / Maisons du Monde — Paris · Permanent

New feature development on REST API in microservices architecture (Symfony 3/4, PHP 7.1).

User data migration scripts via RabbitMQ and Redis.
Unit testing with PHPUnit in Docker / GitLab environment.

Stack : PHP 7.1 Symfony 3 & 4 PHPUnit RabbitMQ Redis PostgreSQL Docker GitLab

Maisonsdumonde.com — e-commerce site, commercial highlights management.

January 2017 — March 2018

PHP Developer

Wevioo — Tunis · Permanent

Corrective and evolutionary maintenance of Nordnet platforms under Symfony 2.8/3, PHP 5.

Development of an Elasticsearch indexing module and Moodle connector.
REST API and SOAP service design, PHPUnit unit tests.

Stack : PHP 5 Symfony 2.8 & 3 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery REST API SOAP MySQL Elasticsearch PHPUnit

Nordnet platforms (Compoz, Assistance) — Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.

June 2012 — December 2016

PHP Developer

Tritux — Tunis · Permanent

Team lead and onboarding of new project members.

REST API for subscriber management (Tunisie Télécom) and LDAP/RADIUS authentication modules.
Database migration scripts and asynchronous messaging with RabbitMQ.

Stack : PHP 5 Symfony 2 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery REST API SOAP PHPUnit RabbitMQ MySQL MS SQL Server PostgreSQL

Marabout (industrial IoT, +1,000 req/s), AlvaNet ERP, Captive Portal, Mobimoney.

Education & Training

Mastering Symfony 7 (SF7MASTER)

SensioLabs — official Symfony training — 2026

Clean Architecture & DDD Training

Sagexa — 2026

SEO Training

Eskimoz — 2026

Master's in Computer Science

ISSAT, Sousse — 2003 — 2009

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My areas of expertise

2026 — Present

Devoptus — Showcase Site

Devoptus agency showcase site. Clean Architecture & DDD, Vite build, FR/EN i18n, blog with JSON-LD, Docker deployment on AWS.

Stack : PHP 8 Symfony 6 Vite Docker MySQL Doctrine Twig

2021 — Present

Lenewblack.com

B2B SaaS wholesale platform for the fashion industry. Migration Symfony 3 → 6.4, DDD & Clean Architecture overhaul, page load time reduced from ~6s to ~2s.

Stack : PHP 8 Symfony 6 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery MySQL MongoDB PHP Deployer

2018 — 2020

AnyCommerce API

Commercial management API for an omnichannel retail SaaS editor. REST API design with OpenAPI, asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ, Redis cache.

Stack : PHP 7.4 Symfony 4 DDD PHPUnit RabbitMQ Redis OpenAPI Docker

2018

Maisonsdumonde.com

E-commerce site, commercial highlights management in microservices architecture. User data migration scripts via RabbitMQ and Redis.

Stack : PHP 7.1 Symfony 3 & 4 RabbitMQ Redis PostgreSQL Docker

2017 — 2018

Nordnet Platforms

Compoz and Assistance platforms for Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Elasticsearch indexing module, Moodle connector, SOAP services.

Stack : PHP 5 Symfony 2.8 & 3 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery Elasticsearch REST API SOAP MySQL

2012 — 2016

Marabout — Industrial IoT

High-availability industrial IoT platform (+1,000 req/s). REST API for subscriber management (Tunisie Télécom), LDAP/RADIUS authentication modules.

Stack : PHP 5 Symfony 2 Twig HTML/CSS jQuery REST API RabbitMQ MySQL MS SQL Server

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A Symfony project, a migration, an architecture to structure? Let's talk.

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