Valentin Cojocaru
DevOps engineer & PHP developer based in Romania.
I design and build the infrastructure, APIs, and backend systems that power modern web applications. With 10+ years of experience across PHP/Yii2, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, I help businesses move fast without breaking things.
Experience
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2024
Senior Full-Stack & DevOps
Freelance
Building complex Yii2 applications and the server infrastructure behind them. Prometheus + Grafana monitoring for all client projects.
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2021
Full-Stack Developer
Agency Work
Led development of several e-commerce and SaaS projects. Introduced CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based deployments to the team workflow.
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2018
PHP Developer
Freelance
Started with PHP and MySQL, building client websites and learning how to properly configure and maintain Linux servers.
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2016
Computer Science
University
Studied computer science. Spent most of the time outside class reading PHP documentation and setting up home servers.
Kind words
Valentin built our e-commerce platform and then set up the server infrastructure. The site has been running without a single outage for over two years, and when we needed to scale for a seasonal traffic spike he had it handled before it became a problem.
We hired Valentin to migrate our legacy site to Yii2 and move to a properly configured server. He delivered on time, documented everything, and was still answering questions six months later. Exactly the kind of developer a small business needs.