Ales Bencina

2000 Maribor · Slovenia · ales.ben1@gmail.com

I am a Slovenian based web developer focused on crafting beautiful and user friendly websites. I have developed and maintained web applications using PHP, MySQL and Javascript along with various other technologies.


Experience

Lead Drupal Developer

Drupal 10 development for custom modules and themes, optimizing performance, SEO, and user experience. Oversee project planning, client communication syncs, and tech talks to align with goals and provide technical insights.

Expert in decoupled Drupal with ReactJS and GraphQL, leveraging DDEV for local development and Playwright for end-to-end testing. Manage CI/CD pipelines on CircleCI and Jenkins, integrating high-performance modules using Rust and Java for back-end tasks. Proficient with Symfony components, caching strategies, and production-ready configurations.

Technologies: Drupal 10, Symfony, ReactJS, GraphQL, Rust, Java, MySQL, Redis, DDEV, Playwright, Behat, CircleCI, Jenkins, Git.

2018 - Present

Laravel Full Stack Developer

Develop web applications using Laravel framework, focusing on Eloquent ORM, Blade templating, and Laravel Livewire for reactive interfaces. Skilled in database architecture and performance optimization for MySQL, including Eloquent relationships, migrations, and seeding.

Leverage Laravel's queue system and Redis for task scheduling, caching and routing system. Experienced in building RESTful APIs, integrating third-party services, and maintaining secure, scalable applications through GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Technologies: Laravel (PHP), MySQL, HTML, CSS, VueJS, GraphQL, Git.

2021 - Present

Web Developer

Implementation of REST API for Warpit , human resource management portal and webshops. Development was done in Laravel (PHP, Eloquent), MySQL, VueJS, twig, CSS, HTML, Vanilla Javascript and GIT.

2015 - 2017

Web Developer

Development of internal portal for managing Cisco Unified Communications Manager. The development team was working based on the scrum agile framework.

Technologies I've used for implementations are Laravel (PHP, Eloquent), PHP unit testing, Angular 4, GIT, HTML, CSS (scss), Symfony CLI, Linux and MySQL.

2017 - 2017

Junior Web Developer

I was implementing websites for media research companies such as Media Analyse. I used PHP, MySQL, Ajax for backend implementation and CSS, Vanilla Javascript and ExtJS for frontend.

2014 - 2015

Education

Šolski center Celje

High school diploma
Computer technician
2006 - 2010

University of Maribor

Bachleor degree

Informatics and technologies of communications

2011 - 2015

University of Maribor

Master degree

Informatics and technologies of communications

2015

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Technologies
  • PHP backend development
    Laravel, Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Symfony
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
    CSS, SCSS, Bootstrap, BEM, Javascript, VueJS
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Interests

Beside web development I enjoy to spend time beeing outdoors. I love to go hike to the mountains, ski, play football and travel.

When I have to be inside, I am watching YouTube, movies, series and TV shows. I spend a large amount of my free time exploring latest technologies, checking new posts on Hacker news and blogs on Medium .


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