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Enric Elvira Riera
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Back-end developer
Johannesburg
Fixed term, Freelance, Permanent contract
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Enric Elvira Riera
Backend developer passionate about Laravel and Symfony frameworks
Back-end developerJohannesburg
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Professional experiences
20 years of experience as Back-end developer (or similar)
Software Developer
Trippz - UtrechtSep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 year

Trippz is a Fintech startup providing tax compliance services for travel
platforms, governments and hosts, automating the handling of tourist taxes
and guest registration with the authorities.
• Enhanced core Laravel + Vue.js platforms within a team of 4 developers.
• Built and deployed a full suite of automated data exports across all core
models, enabling seamless handover to Business Intelligence for strategic
insights.
• Architected and implemented a modular integrations framework to handle
guest registration compliance with local authorities across several European
countries.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align technical developments with
business goals.

Lead Developer
3X4 Genetics - JohannesburgJul 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 years 1 month

3X4 Genetics is a genetics-based health company that combines industry-
leading genetic
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testing, advanced nutrigenomic education and a global network of passionate,
visionary
accredited practitioners to help people listen to their bodies and make
personalized daily
choices for a longer, healthier and better life.
My role is to lead the recently created internal team of developers taking care
of the
platform.
My responsibilities are:
• To maintain and develop their custom-developed core application to support
business processes and goals.
• To ensure security, robustness and scalability are built into the application
using
development best practices.
• To integrate this application with other off-the-shelf and platform-as-a-service
(PaaS) applications
• To lead the growing development team with agile development
methodologies.

Lead Developer
Universal Technology Holdings - JohannesburgMar 2021 - Jun 2021 · 3 months

Uni-Tech Holdings is a software consultancy company. I was hired to lead
a team of developers to enhance and refactor a legacy Insurance software.
I started to introduce software best practices, clean code principles and an
enhanced Agile methodology.

Technical Lead
Morphed - JohannesburgDec 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 year 3 months

Morphed is a subscription based e-commerce platform for professional online
services. I implemented the platform from scratch using Symfony framework,
getting involved also in the conception of the product.
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• I migrated all the infrastructure from a shared server to single purpose
dedicated servers and implemented an automated deployment system for all
our apps.
• I introduced Agile methodologies and effective development best practices to
enhance product development.
• I designed and led the hiring process of two highly skilled developers,
including my replacement.
• I also worked on a secondary product, On The Bench: a B2B marketplace
for online professional services, mainly focused on HubSpot (marketing tools
suite). My main responsibility was to update the Symfony legacy code base to
modern development standards, enforcing software best practices and clean
code principles.

Senior Software Engineer
Blue Label Telecoms - JohannesburgMay 2019 - Nov 2019 · 6 months

Blue Label Telecoms is a listed South African IT company. I worked in its
subsidiary, Ticketpro, which is one of the largest ticketing companies in South
Africa.
My main responsibilities were development and maintenance for high
transaction rate applications, including ticketing, accreditation and
access control platforms using the LAMP tech stack and following Agile
Methodologies.

Senior Software Engineer
Ajar Online - DubaiAug 2018 - Dec 2018 · 4 months

Ajar Online is a mobile-inspired cloud service built for the real estate market in
the MENA region that uses technology to offer a quick and efficient online rent
payment & collection solution as well as property management.
I was hired to enhance their core business software solution, a Laravel based
API.

Co-Founder & Tech Lead
Foodie & Tours - BarcelonaMar 2013 - Jul 2018 · 5 years 4 months

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Foodie&Tours was a gastronomic startup, our aim was to provide a single
portal for tourists to choose from a wide variety of gastronomic tours in
Barcelona.
I was very involved in the company strategy I developed the front and backend
of the website, using Symfony framework including an events catalogue based
on cities, a provider integration system
and a franchise generator system.

Senior PHP Developer
Lazada GroupSep 2014 - Mar 2015 · 6 months

Vietnam
Lazada is the biggest e-commerce player in Southeast Asia, with presence in
6 countries. It was recently acquired by Ali Baba.
I was working in his Tech Hub, located in Vietnam. I was part of the Operations
team, mainly responsible for Warehouse and Orders management. Our tech
stack was LAMP, the software was based on Zend Framework.

Senior PHP Developer
WEBclusiveMay 2013 - Aug 2014 · 1 year 3 months

WEBclusive was a software development company specialized in
crowdfunding platforms.
I joined their highly skilled core development team to enhance their main
software product which is a flexible and scalable crowdfunding platform,
running several sites and developed in Symfony framework.
We were working using Scrum methodology and Test Driven Development,
encouraging code quality and following best practices.

Senior Backend PHP Developer
SWYF - AmsterdamSep 2012 - Apr 2013 · 7 months

ShopWithYourFriends was an online shopping startup based in Amsterdam.
I joined their fast paced development team to design and implement backend
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processes and systems, in a high performance and large scale platform,
always involved in the whole development life cycle.
We were using technologies like Redis and ElasticSearch on top of a Zend
Framework codebase, in a Scrum methodology environment. Clean code and
software best practices were encouraged.

PHP Developer
Hall St - BarcelonaMar 2011 - Feb 2012 · 11 months

Hall St was a startup company based in Barcelona. The website was operating
as a hotel room marketplace, allowing the users to resell their hotel bookings
in auctions.
I was hired as the 1st employee. I implemented the whole website and re-
booking system in Symfony framework.

PHP Developer
Privalia - BarcelonaOct 2010 - Feb 2011 · 4 months

Privalia is a very successful outlet ecommerce website based in Barcelona.
I worked in the production support team, adding new features to the backoffice
used by the Product department. We were using on a Zend Framework stack
in an Agile methodology environment.

PHP Developer
We Are Mortensen S.L. - BarcelonaMar 2010 - Aug 2010 · 5 months

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Mortensen is a well respected web agency based in Barcelona. I joined their
team to develop three corporate websites in WordPress.

PHP Developer
CONFECOM - BarcelonaApr 2010 - Aug 2010 · 4 months

Confederació de Comerç de Catalunya is the official commerce agency for
Catalunya. I was hired through an external consulancy for this job. I was
updating and adding features to the employer's intranet.

PHP Developer
Mecalux - Cornellà de LlobregatSep 2008 - Feb 2009 · 5 months

Mecalux is a well-known logistic solutions company based in Barcelona. My
job was to convert a JSP based catalog website to a standalone Apache+PHP
server to be distributed in a CD.

PHP Developer
Diagonal Flats - BarcelonaApr 2007 - Mar 2008 · 11 months

Diagonal Flats was a company focused on holiday apartment rentals in
Barcelona. I was hired to built a new booking ecommerce system in PHP using
my own custom framework.

Schools
5 years of higher education
Escuela de Organización Industrial
Executive Master in Innovation2016
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Master's degree, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design2003
Universitat de Lleida
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science2003
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