Ville SalminenCareer Network · Est. 2014
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VilleSalminen

PHP / Laravel Developer Vantaa, Finland
Served by CCareer PProjects OOpen Source LLearning

Twelve years on the PHP network. I build dependable Laravel back ends — clean APIs, queue-heavy pipelines and careful migrations of legacy code — for teams that need software to run on time, every time.

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Ville SalminenPlatform 1
Departures · Helsinki time--:--
TimeServicePlat.Status
08:30API design & build1On time
10:00Legacy PHP → Laravel2On time
13:15Code review & mentoring3On time
15:40Your next project4Boarding
Open to full-time, contract and consulting work · Remote across the EU or on-site in the Helsinki region · Please mind the gap between legacy and modern code ·
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Zone 2 · Experience & projects

Career Network Map

Each coloured line is a career track and each station a job, project, contribution or milestone. Select any station to read its information board, then ride the line forward or back.

CCareer Line PProjects Line OOpen Source Line LLearning Line Interchange Planned extension
Network · 2010 → todayNot to scale
Career network map VANTAANJOKI Zone A · Learning Zone B · Career Zone C · Open source → ALWAYS LEARNING
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Zone 3 · Skills

Route Guide

The tools I use every day, grouped into four routes. Interchange stops mark the skills I rely on most and could teach on the spot.

R1
Core PHPEvery day · since 2014
  1. PHP 8.312 yrs
  2. OOP & SOLID12 yrs
  3. Composer11 yrs
  4. PSR standards10 yrs
  5. Design patterns9 yrs
R2
LaravelEvery day · since 2016
  1. Eloquent10 yrs
  2. Queues & Horizon7 yrs
  3. Livewire4 yrs
  4. Filament3 yrs
  5. Sanctum5 yrs
  6. Octane2 yrs
R3
Data & InfrastructureFrequent service
  1. MySQL12 yrs
  2. PostgreSQL5 yrs
  3. Redis7 yrs
  4. Docker7 yrs
  5. AWS5 yrs
  6. GitHub Actions5 yrs
R4
Quality & FrontendFrequent service
  1. Pest / PHPUnit9 yrs
  2. PHPStan6 yrs
  3. REST & GraphQL9 yrs
  4. Vue + Inertia6 yrs
  5. Tailwind CSS5 yrs

Interchange stop: core skill, used daily.

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Zone 4 · About

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About this service

I'm Ville Salminen, a PHP and Laravel developer based in Vantaa, Finland. I started out in 2014 building PHP sites for media clients and have spent the decade since on the back end of e-commerce, logistics and healthcare products. These days I lead backend work on a multi-tenant Laravel platform.

My favourite work is the unglamorous kind: turning a fragile legacy monolith into a tested, well-structured Laravel application without stopping the trains. I care about readable code, clear API contracts, queues that recover on their own, and documentation the next developer will actually read.

I work in English and Finnish. I enjoy mentoring, I co-organise a local PHP meetup, and I maintain a few open-source packages for Finnish e-invoicing.

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Service hours

Weekdays
08:00 – 17:00 EET
Based in
Vantaa, Finland
Coverage
Remote · EU · Helsinki region
Languages
Finnish · English
€

Ticket types

Full-time
Senior / Lead backend
Contract
3 – 12 months
Consulting
Audits & migrations
12Years on the network
30+Laravel apps shipped
2MQueued jobs / day, peak
4Lines · 17 stations
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Zone 5 · Contact

Information Desk

Need a Laravel developer, a second opinion on an architecture, or help untangling legacy code? The desk is staffed.

Help PointVille Salminen · PHP / Laravel Developer

Journey planner

Typical journey time: one business day to first reply.

  1. Send an emailTell me about your product, team and timeline.Departs anytime
  2. Quick callA 30-minute chat to see whether we're on the same line.Within the week
  3. All aboardA clear plan, a first milestone and regular status updates.Arrives on schedule
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