About me

I'm @IonBazan and I work as a Lead PHP Developer at @PomeloPay. During my over 6 years professional career, I have specialised in PHP and Docker, including in-depth knowledge about Symfony and Laravel internals, allowing me to better understand frameworks' nature.
As a passionate learner, I always try to improve my skills and use them to help open source community by contributing to the projects I use on everyday basis by submitting new Pull Requests or helping others with the Issues. I am also maintaining several open source projects that are used by others.

Open Source contributions

I am contributing to several open source projects that I use in my work and I maintain a few useful open source projects. Some of my recent projects are:

• Composer Diff - Composer plugin comparing two composer.lock files for package changes, available as GitHub Action too.
• Aliyun HTTP Signer - easy to use, PSR-7 compatible, Alibaba Cloud API Gateway request signer
• Laravel Container Debug - Symfony-inspired command that lists available services in Laravel IoC Container

My recent contributions include:

• Symfony Polyfill - multiple contributions for PHP polyfills
• Faker - several contributions for Polish and Singaporean providers
• Doctrine MongoDB ODM - PHP 8.0 Attributes support
• elao/enum - Doctrine MongoDB bridge and several improvements
• GusApi - multiple bug fixes and test improvements

Funding

I am looking for a way to make my free time profitable by giving back to communities through my open source projects. By supporting my open source work, you will encourage me to contribute more and cover my learning expenses (trainings, courses, certifications).