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Senior PHP Engineer at CitNOW Group

Hi, I’m Tejas Navghane.

Backend engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling PHP, Symfony and cloud systems.

I specialise in PHP, Symfony, MySQL and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), with a track record of optimising performance, cutting cloud costs and making production systems calmer to run.

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Years building backend systems
10+
Years building backend systems
Saved annually in AWS & Azure costs
$41K
Saved annually in AWS & Azure costs
Fewer priority support tickets
80%
Fewer priority support tickets
Contacts scaled on Campaign Studio
3M → 7M
Contacts scaled on Campaign Studio

01About

I started out in 2015 as a trainee intern at Earth Solutions, building stock-market community features with Laravel, and was taken on full-time in 2016. That curiosity turned into a career of building robust, scalable backend systems for products used around the world.

Since then I’ve scaled a marketing automation platform from 3M to 7M contacts, built secrets management for a performance testing platform, and shipped regulatory features for video products used by automotive dealers. Today I’m a Senior PHP Engineer at CitNOW Group, working on backend reliability for CitNOW Video.

I enjoy the space where engineering meets problem-solving, and I care about good documentation and helping teammates grow. Away from the keyboard you’ll find me playing cricket with friends or reading sci-fi.

02Experience

  1. May 2025 — Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    UK · Remote

    Senior PHP Engineer · CitNOW Group

    Project: CitNOW Video

    • Led the rapid implementation and release of Bulgaria dual-currency support for the Video Personalised Presentation (VPP) product, keeping it compliant with local regulatory changes.
    • Delivered critical bug fixes to keep high-availability environments stable.
    • Kept production running smoothly while improving backend reliability across a complex PHP-based service ecosystem.
    • PHP
    • Python
    • MySQL 8
    • AWS Lambda
    • DynamoDB
    • Docker
    • Beanstalk
    • GitLab

  2. Jun 2024 — May 2025 · 1 yr

    Pune, India

    Senior Software Engineer II · Perforce

    Project: BlazeMeter

    • Built features that let DevOps configure machine types for BlazeMeter tests, cutting annual cloud costs by $25K on AWS and $16K on Azure.
    • Designed and implemented a secure secrets management system that parses and extracts secret keys from YAML/JMeter files, and refactored the secret APIs to reduce technical debt.
    • Upgraded the platform to PHP 8.3 and improved MongoDB usage with typemaps.
    • Strengthened access control by enforcing RBAC and securing usage reporting.
    • Improved global search with Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, and fixed concurrency and scheduling issues in multi-scenario YAML test runs.
    • Wrote automated pytest suites and improved onboarding documentation, including educational videos on workflows.
    • PHP 8.3
    • Java 17
    • Python
    • MongoDB 7
    • PostgreSQL 16
    • AWS
    • GCP
    • Azure
    • Kubernetes
    • Redis

  3. Oct 2020 — May 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Pune, India

    Senior Software Engineer · Acquia

    Project: Campaign Studio

    • Scaled Campaign Studio from 3M to 7M contacts by optimising segment-building queries.
    • Led the support team in resolving production issues, reducing priority tickets from 200 to 40 per month.
    • Merged open-source Mautic releases (3.3.3, 4, 4.4.4) into Campaign Studio and upgraded PHP from 7.4 to 8.0.
    • Refactored the Mautic Language Packer with Symfony 6, resolving long-standing issues.
    • Spoke at Mautic Conference 2024, Pune, on building the Custom Objects plugin.
    • Ran code reviews and introduced development best practices.
    • PHP 8.0
    • Symfony 4.4/6
    • MySQL 8
    • Redis
    • Beanstalk
    • Kafka
    • GCP
    • AWS
    • Kubernetes

  4. Oct 2017 — Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Pune, India

    Senior Software Developer · D. J. Alexander

    Project: Apropos

    • Built a booking management system that matches employee availability with customer scheduling based on role and booking type.
    • Implemented JSON-RPC APIs with an Angular front end and took part in database schema design.
    • Integrated DocuSign APIs for electronic signing of documents and contracts.
    • Wrote shell scripts that streamlined local development and improved developer productivity.
    • PHP 7.3
    • Symfony 4.4
    • PostgreSQL 10
    • Redis
    • Angular
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes

  5. May 2016 — Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Pune, India

    Member of Technical Staff · Earth Solutions

    Project: SP Tulsian

    • Joined as a Trainee Intern in 2015 and moved to a full-time role in May 2016.
    • Led development of stock query features with real-time voting and tagging.
    • Optimised reporting queries, reducing CPU load from 60% to 20%.
    • Implemented browser push notifications for Chrome, Firefox and Safari using service workers.
    • Automated Excel-to-MySQL data imports, turning a week-long manual process into 30 minutes.
    • Gathered requirements with clients and managed production deployments on AWS.
    • PHP 7.0
    • Laravel 5.1
    • MySQL
    • Redis
    • Memcached
    • AWS

03Projects

04Skills

Languages & Frameworks
  • PHP 7.x / 8.x
  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • Angular
  • Python
  • Java
Databases
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
Cloud & DevOps
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
Queues & Caching
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Beanstalk
  • Memcached
APIs & Practices
  • REST
  • JSON-RPC
  • TDD
  • Code review
  • RBAC
Tools
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Jira
  • Confluence

05Contact

Have a role, a project or a question in mind? I’m always happy to talk about backend engineering, scaling PHP systems or cloud infrastructure.

sayhello@tejasnavghane.com

Based in Pune, India, working remotely with teams worldwide.