PHP / Symfony Backend Developer · Enterprise Systems Integration
Software developer with 19 years of professional experience, specializing in enterprise application development, API integrations, business process automation, and system modernization. I combine hands-on engineering, problem-solving, and technical coordination to deliver solutions aligned with business needs without unnecessary complexity.
📍 Location: El Salvador
🤝 Open to: Remote opportunities, freelance contracts, and enterprise integration projects.
Infrastructure, Messaging & Tools
- Enterprise Systems Integration: Developing APIs and services that connect enterprise applications, educational platforms, and external services. Extensive experience integrating Microsoft Dynamics GP, iSAMS, and Google Workspace.
- Electronic Invoicing (El Salvador): Developing compliant electronic invoicing solutions integrating Dynamics GP with Symfony applications. Workflow includes retrieving business data, digital signing services, PDF report generation (Jaspersoft/JasperReports), and asynchronous processing via Symfony Messenger and RabbitMQ.
- Business & Educational Applications: End-to-end development of administrative systems for resource reservation, budget/purchasing management, student enrollment, and academic grading.
- Infrastructure & Automation: Building reproducible Docker & Docker Compose environments, configuring networking, Nginx Proxy Manager, and persistent storage for seamless containerized deployments.
Symfony Docker Demo A Docker-based development environment for Symfony applications, designed to organize application services and dependencies and make local development easier to reproduce.
🍔 WowFood - Restaurant Food Order System
An educational extracurricular project designed to teach the fundamentals of dynamic web development using pure (Vanilla) PHP and MariaDB without frameworks. It demonstrates client-server interaction and PDO data persistence through an interactive food catalog and order system.
I am actively interested in projects involving PHP/Symfony maintenance, legacy modernization, REST API design, and enterprise workflow automation.
- GitHub: @samrodriguez
- LinkedIn: Ing. Samuel Rodríguez