Altaf Hussain is a fullstack web and mobile app developer with over 6 years ofnexperience in PHP development. He received his degree in electrical engineering andnspecialized in computer and communications from Pakistan. Altaf is an electricalnengineer on paper and a software engineer by heart.nHe worked as a system programmer in his team, developing control software fornsmall test robots using assembly languages and C. After this, Altaf got interestednin web technologies and never looked back. He has worked with numerous PHPnframeworks, including Zend, Laravel, and Yii, and open source systems suchnas Drupal, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Magento. Altaf designed and built twonproprietary CMS systems with full support for multiple languages and models,npermissions, and translations, as well as different kinds of multilingual contentnmanagement. Now, he works in the fashion industry as the head of IT at shy7lo.com,nwhere his role is to manage the development team on the premises and abroad, innorder to manage Magento and Laravel applications development and the deploymentnlife cycle. Besides web apps, Altaf has worked on iOS and Android applications,nincluding building APIs in Lumen. He is a big fan of service-oriented architecturen(SOA) and successfully uses it in different applications.nAltaf actively researches on website performance and has deployed the latestntechnologies, such as PHP 7, NGINX, Redis, Varnish, and others, in productionnenvironments for high-speed and scalable applications. He is a Debian lover andnuses it for all of his web application deployments.nWhen not working, Altaf writes articles for programmingtunes.com andntechyocean.com. He has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, includingnLearning Phalcon PHP, Mastering jQuery Mobile, and PrestaShop ModulenDevelopment.
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