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I'm Nikola Lardev, a Bulgarian Magento and Laravel developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust e-commerce solutions for clients across multiple industries. I focus on Laravel and Magento/Adobe Commerce, and I’m comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, Cypress, and JavaScript-based stacks. I contribute to the Mage-OS community and stay current with web technology trends to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions. I’m passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and optimising user experience, performance, and SEO. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and sharing knowledge with the Mage-OS community.…I'm Nikola Lardev, a Bulgarian Magento and Laravel developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust e-commerce solutions for clients across multiple industries. I focus on Laravel and Magento/Adobe Commerce, and I’m comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, Cypress, and JavaScript-based stacks. I contribute to the Mage-OS community and stay current with web technology trends to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions. I’m passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and optimising user experience, performance, and SEO. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and sharing knowledge with the Mage-OS community.

Nikola Lardev

Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, +3

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I'm Nikola Lardev, a Bulgarian Magento and Laravel developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust e-commerce solutions for clients across multiple industries. I focus on Laravel and Magento/Adobe Commerce, and I’m comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, Cypress, and JavaScript-based stacks. I contribute to the Mage-OS community and stay current with web technology trends to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions. I’m passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and optimising user experience, performance, and SEO. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and sharing knowledge with the Mage-OS community.…I'm Nikola Lardev, a Bulgarian Magento and Laravel developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust e-commerce solutions for clients across multiple industries. I focus on Laravel and Magento/Adobe Commerce, and I’m comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, Cypress, and JavaScript-based stacks. I contribute to the Mage-OS community and stay current with web technology trends to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions. I’m passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and optimising user experience, performance, and SEO. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and sharing knowledge with the Mage-OS community.

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I’m Nikola Lardev, a Bulgarian Magento and Laravel developer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust e-commerce solutions for clients across multiple industries. I focus on Laravel and Magento/Adobe Commerce, and I’m comfortable with Docker, CI/CD, Cypress, and JavaScript-based stacks. I contribute to the Mage-OS community and stay current with web technology trends to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions.

I’m passionate about writing clean, maintainable code and optimising user experience, performance, and SEO. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and sharing knowledge with the Mage-OS community.

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Bulgarian

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Work Experience

Magento Developer at Merkle

October 1, 2025 - October 16, 2025

Design, develop and deploy robust e-commerce solutions with focus on Magento 2 architecture; custom module development; theme customization; API integrations; performance optimization; payment gateway integration.

Magento Developer at Tryzens

September 1, 2020 - October 16, 2025

Built and maintained Magento and Magento 2 websites; developed new modules or extended current ones for both B2B and B2C sites; used LEMP stack, Docker, Magento 2, Knockout, and AWS; ensured test-driven development and code quality.

Magento Developer at Merchant's Development Team

July 1, 2018 - October 16, 2025

Dedicated on-demand role supporting Magento projects; implemented new features, unit testing, bug fixes, and merchant reporting functionality; worked with Magento 2, MySQL, jQuery/Prototype/Knockout, AWS, and TDD.

PHP Team Leader at MentorMate

April 1, 2015 - October 16, 2025

Led a team focused on Magento on top of the Yii framework; responsibilities included developing new features, optimizing existing code, and managing a team of up to 8 developers.

Senior PHP Developer at Unknown

March 1, 2014 - October 16, 2025

Worked on multiple projects; primarily using LAMP stack; migrated some projects to Nginx; worked with Zend Framework, Symfony 2.x, MySQL; improved frontend via CSS/HTML, and maintained web applications.

Magento Developer at Kinguin

December 20, 2017 - October 16, 2025

Built and maintained Magento and Magento 2 websites for a digital goods marketplace; developed new modules or extended existing ones for B2B/B2C; used LAMP, Magento 2, jQuery/Prototype/Knockout, AWS, and REST/QA practices.

PHP Backend Engineer at InvestClub

December 1, 2025 - Present

Backend development for Magento/Laravel projects, API integration, and performance optimizations.

Laravel Developer at Merkle

October 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025

Laravel/Magento development, API integrations, performance optimizations.

Magento Developer at Reward Gateway

September 20, 2018 - September 20, 2020

Developed Magento-based solutions, backend functionality and performance improvements.

Magento Developer at Tryzens

January 1, 2018 - July 1, 2018

Magento-based implementations, backend/frontend development, integrations.