Lars Pohlmann – Freelance PHP & Symfony Developer in Hamburg

About Me

My name is Lars Pohlmann. I started working with PHP in 1999 and have been a freelance Symfony developer in Hamburg since 2010. That means more than 25 years of PHP experience and 15 years as a freelancer.

Experiences and Knowledge

• Main focus: PHP & Symfony – secure and scalable web applications
• Codestyle & Testing: phpUnit, phpCS, psalm, phpMD
• DevOps & Infrastructure: CI/CD with Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines
• Teamwork: Agile environments, Jira, collaboration in large teams
• AWS experience: EC2, ECS, Fargate, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3...
• Additional experience: MySQL, Docker, Datadog, Redis, Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), OAuth, OpenID, Shibboleth, Okta
• Languages: German (native), English (fluent)

Past clients

• A Hamburg-based global statistics platform with millions of users, providing market data and insights to thousands of businesses across 170 industries. (2015-2024)
• A sustainability software provider offering solutions for ESG, supply chain, and climate management, supporting over 250 companies with regulatory compliance. (2025)

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