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Ángel Guzmán MaesoÁG

Ángel Guzmán Maeso

Supermalter

✅ Senior Backend AI Engineer ⭐ Symfony🥇 PHP

€725/day
135 projects
Manzanares, ES
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ángel

I perform web design (PHP, Python, Ruby) and programming(Java, C++), and server administration GNU/Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian).

Software Engineer with a Full Stack emphasis. Love developing and working with great infrastructures. Ambitious applications are always keeping contempt.

DevOps with a strong emphasis on Back-end web development and automation and deployment of Unix systems.

I'm an experienced PHP Developer (16+ years) with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) in Spain.

Over 16 years of intensive work in the web development industry.

I apply my technical skills using UNIX based and like operating systems to provide the most effective, reliable and secure solutions available.

Built solutions using several scripting/programming languages

► PHP: OOP, MVC, Best practices, Design Patterns, Unit Testing

► PHP frameworks: Symfony, Zend, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Lumen, FuelPHP

► Python: Django, Fabric

► Webservers: Apache, Nginx, Varnish, LightHTTP

► Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, PostgresSQL, Percona

► Version control system: Git, hg (mercurial), Bazaar, svn

Also:
► Mailing: Postfix, Dovecot, Postgre, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailgun, Mailchimp

► Providers:
- AWS (EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Latency Based Routing (LBR), Glacier, etc),
- Digital Ocean,
- Hetzner,
- Linode (Lish)

► CDN: CloudFlare

► PaaS: Cloud66, EngineYard, Laravel Forge

► GTD: Basecamp, Asana, Trello, Wunderlist

► Payments: Pay_pal API, Stripe, Braintree, MangoPay, Zaxaa

► Bluehost, Hostgator, Site5

► Security: Suhosin, ModSecurity

► Panels: cPanel (and cPanel DNS only), DirectAdmin, Plesk

► Exception tracking: bugsnag, New Relic

► Redis, Vagrant, Docker

► Templates system: Mustache, Markdown, Smarty, Twig, Haml, Jade, Dwoo, Phptal

► Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Amazon RDS (Multi AZ), Cassandra

►Langchain, RAG, n8n, make.com funnel


And there is much more to list of skills I gathered over the years.
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Manzanares (up to 50km), Ciudad Real (up to 50km), Toledo (up to 50km), Ocaña (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Take a chef - TAKE A K2k S.L.
    Senior Backend Engineer
    RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICE
    July 2025 - March 2026 (8 months)
    Manzanares, Spain
    Working in a Tech department with 12 members as Senior Backend Engineer. In a growing scale-up company billing 17M annually, upgrade Symfony, code cleaning, refactoring, putting good practices and tech talks for the team. Purpose of breaking monolith in micro services, API REST with Docker and containers. Improving CI/CD pipelines with bitbucket. Using open telemetry, Sentry, Rector and other tools to improve daily coverage and increase release frecuency and shipping delivery cadence with Cloudflare.

    Lead a full project from Scratch for a big marketplace with 80.000 chefs and thousand of orders/services daily with other 4 team members.

    Integrate copilot, codex, openai, skills and robots for automated offer with the Head of IA in brainstorming.
    Microsoft Copilot Codex OpenAI Symfony Docker
  • Nowo.Tech
    Senior Backend Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2025 - July 2025 (3 months)
    Manzanares, Spain
    Mejora rendimiento PHP, actualizacion Symfony 6.4 a 7.3. Clean code. Optimizaciones Docker, CI/CD, Tipado codebase, Dead Code. Migración, actualización, desarrollo a medida

    Tipado completo del codebase (PHP 8.2/8.3+ con strict_types, union types, intersection types, enums, readonly properties)
    Detección y eliminación sistemática de dead code (código muerto) mediante herramientas estáticas + análisis manual
    Uso intensivo de atributos, nuevas características de PHP y mejores prácticas de Symfony 7
    Revisión y optimización de consultas Doctrine (indexado, hidratación parcial, DQL → QueryBuilder → Repository pattern avanzado)
    Implementación de caching inteligente (Redis, APCu, HTTP cache, ESI)
    Reducción drástica de tiempo de respuesta y consumo de memoria
    desarrollador symfony Clean Code Docker Symfony 4 PHP development
  • Malt
    Freelance Advisory Board Member
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    May 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)
    Manzanares, Spain
    Malt is the marketplace where ambitious freelancers and project owners come together, through tools that let them connect easily. With over 60,000 clients and 500,000 freelancers, Malt is the largest European platform for finding and hiring expert freelancers. The Malt Freelancer Advisory Board represents the voice of the community and shapes the future of freelancing by working directly with Malt's senior executive team, influencing the product strategy and other important business initiatives aimed at positive environmental and social impact.
    Consulting Social Media Marketing Advisory Freelancer Business development

Reviews

4.9

Out of 75 ratings

J

Juan

Nowo.tech

Reviewed on 09.06.2025

Repetimos con Ángel. Es muy profesional y comprometido.
J

Juan

Nowo.tech

Reviewed on 09.06.2025

Trabajar con Ángel es una muy buena experiencia, es muy profesional y comprometido. Repetimos una vez más.

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Education

  • Ingeniería Informática Superior
    Escuela Superior de Informática (UCLM)
    2012
  • Ingeniería Informática Superior
    Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
    2011

Certifications

  • CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate - Level 1
    Cisco-CCNA
    2011

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