I build the backends that have to stay up. Most recently led a 4-engineer team at Signa Sports United through a microservices migration — Symfony, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker. Before that, NOAA federal infrastructure at 99.9% uptime and a 48-hour incident recovery with zero data loss. 25 years, available now.
EU citizen · Spanish resident · No visa required EU-wide · +34 675 741 692
| Location | Las Palmas, Gran Canaria — 8:00–18:00 CET |
| Timezone fit | Full European day · East Coast morning overlap · West Coast async |
| Languages | English, Spanish, German — fluent · French — intermediate |
| Compensation | €65–75k for EMEA remote permanent roles · £45–65k UK · Day-rate €550/day for contract · Open to discuss |
| Contract type | Permanent employee or B2B contract · Spanish autónomo (no intermediary needed) |
| Authorization | EU citizen · Spanish resident · No visa required across EU/EEA |
| Availability | Immediate |
A senior IC role on a backend product team. PHP/Symfony or Laravel. EMEA remote, fully or near-fully. I work best as an architect-level engineer who ships code, does real design reviews, and writes the runbooks the on-call uses at 2am.
I mentor through code review and design discussion — not through org charts.
Not looking for anything described as "50% hands-on / 50% people management." Both halves of that job deserve full attention.
Led a 4-engineer team through a full microservices migration at Signa Sports United. Built an event-driven translation pipeline (Symfony, RabbitMQ, Redis, DeepL) that cut manual localization effort 40% across Chain Reaction Cycles, Outfitter Teamsport, and Internetstores. Integrated Stripe and PayPal payment gateways, optimized PHP/JS load times 30%, and delivered CI/CD on Bitbucket, Bamboo, Docker, Kubernetes.
Migrated NOAA's 12-subsite Drupal infrastructure across three US colocation centers. Engineered Bash automation for MySQL master/slave replication and a Varnish caching layer. Reduced disaster recovery time by 65%, achieved 99.9% uptime, and cut potential downtime costs by ~$150K annually. The system ran for years without unplanned outages.
Recovered the OIDA conference platform from a state-sponsored attack in 48 hours with no offsite backups. Reconstructed the database from transaction logs, rebuilt with a hardened multi-tier PCI-scoped architecture with audit logging on every state change. Zero data loss. The conference ran on schedule. The rebuilt architecture served three subsequent cycles without incident.
PHP 8.1/8.2 · Symfony 5/6 · Laravel 9+ · Doctrine ORM · Python · Bash · JavaScript · SQL
DDD · CQRS · Event-driven microservices · REST · GraphQL · Hexagonal · SOLID · TDD · PHPUnit
MySQL · MariaDB · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Memcached · RabbitMQ · Varnish · MSSQL
Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Jenkins · Bamboo · Bitbucket · Git · CI/CD · Multi-region replication
Eric's deep expertise in Drupal and server infrastructure was critical to keeping our systems running at 99.5% uptime. His proactive approach to security saved us from potential disasters multiple times. I'd bring Eric back without hesitation for anything involving federal-scale infrastructure.
Eric led our microservices migration with precision. The AI-driven translation pipeline he built reduced our localization effort by 40% and the team trusted his technical leadership completely. Eric's the kind of technical lead you want when the project has no margin for error.
When we needed someone to architect a multi-tenant CMS spanning 18 consulate sites, Eric delivered a solution that drastically cut our content management overhead while maintaining a unified brand. He delivered under a scope no other vendor was willing to take on.
Permanent roles · Contract engagements · Architecture consultations