Safe destruction of working PHP systems
I take over stable, business-critical PHP applications. I spend three days reproducing the bug, map the contents of the fridge along the way, break a few parts that used to work, and ship the highest-risk fix to production first — preferably on a Friday at 17:00 — then plan my next job.
- 1Dragging out onboarding
- 2Ignoring the risks
- 3Skipping the tests
- 4Friday deployment
- 5Dismissal
Relevant experience
- Maintaining high-traffic systems at superReal, where I got my first task in the third month.
- Building a covid application at screencode, on pirated software, alongside covid-denying posts.
- Complex trading modules in the CodeIgniter 4 system at GVS Austria, right up to the dismissal.
- Four days at Beko, followed by a transphobia accusation against the company.



