Hi, I'm Adilet Toktybay!
Full-Stack Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade applications. Skilled in PHP, JavaScript, and modern frameworks across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure.
About Me
Education
M.Sc. Media Technologies
B.Sc. Computer Science
Location
Based in Astana, Kazakhstan
Open to remote & relocation
Experience
4+ years building and scaling production-grade applications
Stack
PHP, JS/TS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Linux, etc.
Resume
I specialize in PHP, have commercial experience with Laravel and Yii2, as well as custom PHP frameworks based on NGINX PHP-FPM. I have worked with Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on projects varying from government information systems to private and quasi-public corporations' internal and commercial systems.
Adilet Toktybay
Software Developer
4
Years
6
Companies
10
Projects
Work Experience
Full-stack Engineer
Apr 2025 - Now
DNS Kazakhstan
Deployed and configured test, staging, and production environments, provisioned Kafka topics, and migrated the database to a dedicated server, ensuring stable and reliable system operations.
Built an automated CI/CD pipeline with unit tests, static analysis, and PHP CS fixer, deploying code via GitLab webhooks with automatic server updates, and enforced branch policies for consistent code quality.
Optimized a heavy Elasticsearch population script, reducing memory usage from 12 GB to ~100 MB and runtime from 10 hours to 30 minutes.
Implemented centralized logging with Graylog to improve monitoring and troubleshooting of production systems.
Tech Stack: PHP, Yii2, SQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Kafka, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Docker, Linux, Ubuntu
Full-stack Engineer
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
CIT Orleu Ltd.
Developed an interactive analytics dashboard for the regional Department of Education, enabling real-time visualization of student performance data across schools with charts, tables, and drill-down filters.
Optimized backend data processing to handle large datasets under strict 128 MB PHP memory limits, reducing memory usage to under 70 MB and preventing crashes during heavy computations.
Refactored legacy codebase inherited from multiple older systems, reducing daily bug reports from ~3 per day to fewer than 1 every other day and improving system stability.
Built 10+ REST API endpoints for mobile clients, enabling seamless access to data for 50,000+ students and standardizing backend integration across platforms.
Tech Stack: PHP, Yii2, SQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Redis, REST API
Backend Engineer
May 2024 - Sep 2024
Thirteen Lab
Implemented backend security measures, stopping frequent attacks and increasing uptime by 25%.
Improved WebSocket stability through robust error handling, reducing downtime by 42%.
Reduced feature release time by 20% through mentoring and code optimization.
Refactored repository structure and file handling policies, reducing repo size by 50% and improving CI/CD pipeline performance.
Tech Stack: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Node.js, Docker, WebSockets, REST API, NGINX, Linux, Ubuntu, SQL, MariaDB
