Service
PHP and Symfony for systems that have to hold up
Several years of my production work is Symfony: service-oriented architecture, Doctrine modelling that does not collapse as the domain grows, Messenger-based async processing, and secure transaction flows. It is the stack I reach for when the domain is complex and correctness matters more than shipping a prototype this week.
What this includes
Service architecture
Dependency-injected services with clear boundaries, so business rules live in one place instead of leaking into controllers.
Doctrine data modelling
Entity design and migrations built for the queries the application actually runs, with indexing and N+1 problems handled early.
Async with Messenger
Message buses and workers over RabbitMQ or Redis for anything that should not block a request.
Secure transaction flows
Auth, authorization and audit trails around money movement, designed to be reviewable rather than merely functional.
Proof
Shipped work using this
Payment Service API
Unified payment integration platform with PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, webhooks, refunds, transaction status handling, and reusable APIs for external applications.
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View case studyCommon questions
Symfony or Laravel, which do you recommend?+
Laravel when speed to market matters and the domain is straightforward. Symfony when the domain is complex, long-lived, or the team wants stricter structure and explicit configuration.
Can you upgrade a legacy PHP application?+
Yes. The usual approach is incremental: get the application on a supported PHP version, add tests around the risky paths, then modernize module by module rather than attempting a full rewrite.
Do you build API documentation?+
Yes, OpenAPI documentation generated from the code, which is how the payment service API I built is documented and consumed.