PHP Laravel Developer - Senior

Senior PHP Laravel Developer with 8+ years of experience building and stabilising scalable web applications, E-Commerce platforms, and API-driven systems. Proven ability to improve performance (30%-60%), reduce onboarding friction (25-40%), stabilise legacy codebases, and deliver revenue-impacting features across both long-term and short-term engagements. Strong focus on maintainability, performance, and production reliability.

Core Strength

✓ Laravel (v10+), PHP 8.2+, REST API Architecture
✓ Client Handling & Requirement Analysis
✓ Team Leadership & Mentorship
✓ Performance Optimisation & Database Tuning
✓ Subscription & Payment Systems (Stripe, Webhooks)
✓ Vue.js (2 & 3), Inertia.js
✓ E-Commerce & Transactional Systems
✓ Legacy Code Stabilisation & Framework Upgrades
✓ Agile Delivery (JIRA, Trello), CI/CD (Jenkins)

Professional Experience

Senior Laravel Developer (Short-Term Engagement), O360 Solutions, Mumbai (July 2025 to November 2025)

✓ Improved overall database performance by ~40%, reducing slow queries and API response bottlenecks through indexing, query refactoring, and schema clean-up.

✓ Reworked onboarding-related APIs, reducing onboarding steps by ~30% and lowering dependency on manual support.

✓ Implemented a subscription billing module using Laravel Soulbscription, enabling recurring payment workflows and subscription lifecycle management.

✓ Initiated a new Vue 3 + Laravel 12 UI, laying the foundation for a more maintainable and scalable frontend architecture.

✓ Delivered measurable improvements within a short engagement by focusing on high-impact technical debt and performance wins.

Senior PHP Laravel Developer, Kanishak Software Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai (May 2024 to February 2025)

✓ Led backend development for multiple Laravel applications supporting 1k-2k+ daily API requests.

✓ Designed and delivered a secure Cafeteria Management System API using Laravel Passport, supporting role-based authentication and token security.

✓ Implemented QR-based ordering and cart workflows, reducing order placement time by ~40% compared to manual flows.

✓ Built a multi-database reporting engine with Indian Financial Year logic, cutting report generation time from hours to minutes.

✓ Owned the end-to-end backend for a Kenya-based E-Commerce platform, supporting hundreds of products and daily transactional traffic.

✓ Stabilised production systems by addressing root-cause issues, reducing recurring runtime errors by ~30%.

Independent Laravel Consultant (Freelancer), Mumbai (OctoberAdded 2023 to March 2024)

✓ Integrated Stripe payment gateway with webhook-driven order state synchronisation, supporting secure, real-time payment confirmation.

✓ Improved application responsiveness using AJAX-driven filtering and live updates, reducing page reloads by ~60% on critical flows.

✓ Performed manual Laravel and PHP upgrades on legacy applications, reducing 500 server errors by ~35-45% post-upgrade.

✓ Delivered complete ownership across backend, deployment coordination, and post-release support.

✓ Managed CI/CD pipelines for development environments, deploying projects to AWS via Jenkins for efficient testing.

Laravel Developer, Webelight Solutions, Ahmedabad, (June 2022 to September 2023)

✓ Designed and maintained PostgreSQL-backed systems using migration-driven schema management for long-term scalability.

✓ Developed secure REST APIs for authentication, file storage, and file management, supporting hundreds of daily operations.

✓ Built Vue.js 2 interfaces integrated with Laravel APIs, reducing manual processing by ~30%.

✓ Conducted regular peer code reviews, contributing to a ~20% reduction in post-release defects.

✓ Supported CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing manual deployment effort by ~50%.

Senior Software Engineer, KudosIntech Software Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad (May 2021 to May 2022)

✓ Enhanced cart and checkout workflows for an agricultural E-Commerce platform, contributing to an estimated 10-15% increase in checkout completion.

✓ Implemented wholesale pricing logic, enabling B2B pricing models and higher average order values.

✓ Built a role-based social networking platform (Admin, Teacher, Student) for an educational NGO, supporting hundreds of active users.

Software Developer (Project-Based Role), Bombay Softwares, Ahmedabad (October 2020 to February 2021)

✓ Developed a document-sharing platform with secure authentication, access control, and automated email notifications.

✓ Implemented AJAX-driven file operations, improving user interaction speed by ~35%.

✓ Pioneered the use of Bootstrap CSS and Tailwind CSS for wireframing and responsive UI design.

✓ Built scalable file upload, sharing, and deletion workflows using Laravel Blade and jQuery.

Web Developer / Team Lead, DetaTech Computer Services, Mumbai (November 2014 to June 2020)

✓ Led a team of 5 developers delivering E-Commerce platforms, SaaS products, and custom web applications.

✓ Designed and built SaaS tools, including bulk email systems processing 10k+ emails/day using Mailgun.

✓ Acted as primary technical liaison for clients, improving delivery turnaround by ~20%.

✓ Improved website performance and SEO using Google Lighthouse, achieving first-page Google search rankings for multiple client sites.

✓ Introduced Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS, accelerating wireframing and responsive UI delivery.

✓ Designed scalable database schemas using Laravel migrations, supporting long-term application growth.

Process Followed

1. Discover

In this process, I learn more about the requirements from you and/or from the client, and come up with varios permutations and combinations to meet the requirements.