Davor Minchorov — Software Engineer

Founder

Nov 2024 – Present

Codyssey

EdTech (developer education) · Remote

Planned, architected, and implemented features for Codyssey, an educational platform that teaches software engineers how to build and maintain long-term software products rather than quick demos and prototypes.
Led, managed, and mentored the engineering team responsible for building and shipping the platform.
Defined the product vision and owned the feature roadmap, prioritizing work aligned with the platform's long-term direction.
Reviewed code submitted by team members to maintain quality, consistency, and long-term maintainability across the codebase.
Set up and configured the infrastructure that runs the product in production.
Prepared and produced educational content for the platform, covering software engineering practices for building durable products.

PHP Laravel Laravel Cloud Statamic React Next.js Tailwind CSS TanStack Query XState Store MySQL Redis Typesense Product Management Team Leadership

Senior Back End Engineer

Aug 2023 – Present

Adeva

Nonprofit SaaS platform · Client: United States · Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented new complex features for an all-in-one nonprofit platform serving a US-based client, including workflows, CRM functionality, and RESTful APIs.
Improved and refactored existing features across the platform to strengthen the reliability and maintainability of the codebase.
Enhanced internal developer tools and sped up GitHub Actions build times, reducing wait time for the engineering team on every push.
Investigated and fixed support issues reported by end users, restoring functionality and improving the customer experience.
Presented ideas on software architecture and design decisions, along with features delivered by the team, to internal stakeholders.
Wrote automated tests to expand coverage and protect existing functionality against regressions.

PHP Laravel MySQL Redis Typesense

Senior PHP Developer

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023

Adeva

iGaming · Client: Montenegro · Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented new and existing features for an iGaming platform built for a Montenegro-based client.
Built internal packages from scratch to support reusable functionality across the codebase and streamline development for the team.
Worked on 3rd-party integrations, including blockchain and Web3 services, to extend the platform's capabilities beyond traditional iGaming functionality.
Wrote automated tests to expand coverage and safeguard against regressions as the platform evolved.

PHP Symfony MariaDB KeyDB Docker

Senior Laravel Developer

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022

Adeva

Healthcare (medical web app) · Client: Italy · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented REST API endpoints for new features on a medical web application built for an Italy-based client.
Improved, optimised, and refactored the existing codebase for current features.
Fixed production bugs to keep the application stable.
Wrote feature tests for the new features.

PHP Laravel MySQL Docker

PHP Software Engineer

Feb 2020 – May 2021

Adeva

Community social network · Client: Switzerland · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented new features for the REST API and GraphQL layer of a community social network web application built for a Switzerland-based client.
Integrated 3rd-party APIs to extend the platform's functionality and connect it to external services.
Fixed bugs across the application to maintain stability and improve the user experience.
Wrote unit and feature tests following a test-driven development (TDD) approach to safeguard functionality and guide implementation.
Designed and implemented UI components for the user-facing application, contributing to a consistent and reusable component library.

PHP Laravel Vue 2 GraphQL REST Elasticsearch MySQL Redis

Senior PHP Developer

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021

Quantox Technology Macedonia

Entertainment (enterprise web app) · Skopje, Macedonia

Planned, architected, designed, and implemented new and existing features for an enterprise web application in the entertainment industry, covering both traditional server-rendered functionality and REST API endpoints.
Fixed release and production bugs to keep the application stable and minimize impact on end users.
Refactored code to improve performance and readability, making the codebase easier for the team to work with over time.
Interviewed and reviewed technical assignments submitted by PHP candidates during the hiring process, and mentored interns as part of the internship programs, besides client work.

PHP Percona Memcached Elasticsearch

PHP Backend Engineer

Oct 2019 – Mar 2020

Adeva

Employee engagement · Client: Local (Macedonia) · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented new admin panel and REST API features for an employee engagement web application built for a local client.
Fixed bugs to keep the application stable.

PHP Laravel Bootstrap jQuery MySQL Docker

PHP Engineer

Jul 2019 – Oct 2019

Adeva

Human resources · Client: United Arab Emirates · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented new features for a human resources web application built for a UAE-based client.
Improved the existing features, code, architecture, workflow processes, and scalability of the project.
Fixed critical bugs to keep the application stable.

PHP CakePHP JavaScript MySQL Docker

Community Member

Jan 2018 – Sep 2019

Adeva

Developer network / community · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Mentored women at Adeva's Female Bootcamp 2018 as part of the Exclusive Developers' Network.
Worked on internal projects alongside client work.
Prepared and reviewed the technical screening task for PHP candidates and interviewed candidates during the hiring process.
Curated links for the developer community newsletter.

PHP Backend Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019

Adeva

Financial (fintech) · Client: United States · Skopje, Macedonia | Remote

Planned, architected, designed, and implemented new and existing features for an enterprise financial web application built for a US-based client.
Fixed release and production bugs to keep the application stable, and attended and supported production releases, addressing issues as they surfaced during deployment.
Presented implemented features and enhancements to business analysts and product owners, walking them through the delivered work.
Spearheaded a team of developers and quality assurance engineers, coordinating day-to-day work and delivery.
Wrote and presented architectural and technical proposals aimed at improving project structure and overall code quality.

PHP Laravel Lumen MySQL Docker

Part-Time Freelance Consultant

Oct 2017 – Jan 2018

3P Development

Real estate · Remote

Planned, designed, and implemented features for a small real estate web application as a part-time consultant.
Fixed bugs to keep the application stable.

PHP Laravel Bootstrap jQuery MySQL Docker

Lead Full Stack PHP Developer

Mar 2017 – Dec 2017

Routyx

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) · Skopje, Macedonia

Architected a scalable project structure designed to support long-term growth and ongoing feature development for both the transportation dispatcher ERP and the API for the driver app.
Planned, architected, designed, and implemented features for the ERP web application and the API for the mobile app to deliver business functionality to end users.
Planned, architected, designed, and implemented front-end features, contributing to the user-facing side of the ERP application.
Mentored interns, supporting their growth as engineers and helping them ramp up on the team's practices.

PHP Laravel Lumen JavaScript jQuery Bootstrap MySQL MongoDB Redis Docker

Full Stack PHP Developer

Apr 2016 – Feb 2017

New Media Corp.

Media & broadcasting · Skopje, Macedonia

Built web applications from the ground up as part of a small team across multiple projects in the media, broadcasting, and civic technology space.
Developed a live camera monitoring web application used to view cameras during an election, implementing admin panel features and integrating an external API to gather monitoring data.
Engineered a web application for TV broadcasters and operators to manage everyday operational activities, implementing admin panel features and integrating an external API to manage remote servers.
Architected an online video platform web application, implementing admin panel features, public-facing website functionality, REST API endpoints, and integrations with external APIs.
Implemented the front end of the customer panel for a TV-as-a-service platform serving broadcasters, media companies, and TV operators across cable, satellite, terrestrial, IPTV, and OTT.
Mentored two colleagues by reviewing their code and helping them work through solutions for the tasks they were assigned.

PHP Laravel Vue 2 JavaScript jQuery Node.js MySQL Redis Docker

Full Stack PHP Developer

Dec 2015 – Mar 2016

Tabellarius

Email marketing · Skopje, Macedonia

Built an email marketing web application from the ground up as part of a team, implementing features, writing functional, integration, and acceptance tests, and refactoring legacy code.
Researched, planned, designed, and implemented a customer support feature from scratch with input from the team, and designed part of the broader application structure and database schema.
Powered the application with real-time functionality by building a real-time support chat for the support features as part of the main product.
Presented internal talks on BEM (CSS naming convention), real-time notifications with Laravel, Node.js, Redis, and Socket.io, automated testing, and Git workflow, and helped the team adopt new tools into the daily development workflow.

PHP Laravel JavaScript jQuery Node.js Socket.IO MySQL Redis Docker

Full Stack PHP Developer Intern

Jun 2015 – Nov 2015

Tabellarius

Email marketing · Macedonia

Implemented new features for an email marketing web application built from the ground up with Laravel as part of a team.
Wrote functional, integration, and acceptance tests and refactored legacy code.
Designed parts of the application structure and database schema, and contributed feature ideas to the team.

PHP Laravel JavaScript jQuery MySQL Apache PHPUnit Codeception

Programming Intern

Jul 2011 – Aug 2011

NLB Tutunska Banka

Banking · Skopje, Macedonia

Developed an inventory-tracking Windows Forms application in C# during a summer internship.

C# Windows Forms

The Story So Far

What I Bring to the Table

System Design & Architecture

Full-Stack Development

Process & Team Enablement

Mentoring

What I've Built

Codyssey.dev

Non-Profit Fundraising Platform

iGaming Platform with Blockchain

Healthcare Web Application

Community Social Network

Enterprise Entertainment Platform

Enterprise Financial Application

Where I've Worked

Founder

Senior Back End Engineer

Senior PHP Developer

Senior Laravel Developer

PHP Software Engineer

Senior PHP Developer

PHP Backend Engineer

PHP Engineer

Community Member

PHP Backend Engineer

Part-Time Freelance Consultant

Lead Full Stack PHP Developer

Full Stack PHP Developer

Full Stack PHP Developer

Full Stack PHP Developer Intern

Programming Intern

What My Clients Say

Tools & Technologies

Top Skills

Languages & Markup

Frameworks & Libraries

Databases & Caching

APIs

DevOps & Infrastructure

Testing

Practices & Leadership

Spoken Languages

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