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Backend engineering
Application architecture, business logic, integrations, and dependable background processing.
- PHP
- Laravel
- Node.js
- REST APIs
- Auth & authorization
- Queues & jobs
- Job batching
- Scheduled tasks
- Caching
Open to remote software engineering roles
Laravel & PHP engineer · Full-stack delivery
Building web products that stay fast when complexity grows.
Software engineer with 3+ years of professional experience—and freelance delivery since 2020—building production Laravel applications, modern frontends, and business-critical integrations. I work across APIs, queues, search, integrations, modern frontends, deployment, and production support.
- Laravel
- PHP
- Next.js
- React
- Vue.js
- TypeScript
- Professional engineering
- 3+ years
- Products synchronized
- 15k+
- Production case studies
- 4
- Freelance delivery since
- 2020
About
I own the path from business problem to production release.
I started delivering freelance software in 2020 and now build production platforms across AI automation, commerce, operations, and publishing for Dutch and Belgian clients.
My strongest work sits where complex business rules, third-party integrations, large datasets, and everyday user experience meet. I can move between Laravel backend work, modern JavaScript frontends, deployment, and production debugging without losing the product context.
01
Translate business workflows into clear, maintainable application boundaries.
02
Use queues, caching, and search where they create measurable product value.
03
Stay accountable through deployment, troubleshooting, and production support.
Expertise
Production skills, not a keyword collection.
A toolkit shaped by migrations, integrations, large catalogue workflows, AI automation, and systems people rely on every day.
02
Frontend systems
Responsive interfaces that keep complex workflows direct, fast, and maintainable.
- Livewire
- Inertia.js
- Vue.js
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Alpine.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Bootstrap
03
Data, search & commerce
Search relevance, catalogue workflows, payments, and multi-system commerce integrations.
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- SQLite
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Meilisearch
- WooCommerce
- Vanilo
- Mollie
- Stripe
- Moneybird
- Google APIs
04
Delivery & platform
Tested releases, observability, cloud-ready deployment, and pragmatic automation.
- Git
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Linux
- Nginx
- VPS management
- Cloudways
- Hostinger
- Postman
- Flutter
- React Native
Experience
A steady path from first delivery to production ownership.
Freelance work since 2020, professional engineering since 2022, and a promotion at DayZ Solutions within seven months.
Oct 2023 — Present
Software Engineer
DayZ Solutions (Pvt) Ltd
Develop and maintain production Laravel applications, Next.js storefronts, internal business systems, and API-driven integrations.
- Build REST APIs, queued and batched jobs, scheduled processes, caching strategies, and search integrations for data-intensive workflows.
- Integrate e-commerce, payments, accounting, calendars, mapping, and AI services across frontend and backend applications.
- Troubleshoot production issues and support deployments across Linux VPS and managed hosting environments.
Mar 2023 — Oct 2023
Associate Software Engineer
DayZ Solutions (Pvt) Ltd
Developed Laravel applications, frontend features, APIs, and business integrations before promotion to Software Engineer.
- Worked across application features, data workflows, integrations, debugging, and production support.
Nov 2022 — Mar 2023
Trainee Full-Stack Developer
Ofeasy (Pvt) Ltd
Developed payroll, customer, and project-management features using Laravel and React.
- Connected frontend interfaces with backend business logic and relational data workflows.
Aug 2022 — Nov 2022
Software Engineering Intern
Weconnect (Pvt) Ltd
Contributed to an employee work-management application using Laravel and React.
- Supported feature development, debugging, and frontend-backend integration.
2020 — Present
Freelance Software Developer
Independent
Build and maintain full-stack web applications using PHP, Laravel, and JavaScript frameworks.
- Deliver API integrations, deployments, maintenance, and Linux VPS support for client projects.
Selected work
Proof of work, not placeholder projects.
Four production platforms showing how I approach AI automation, large datasets, operational workflows, commerce, and search.
01AI content automation
PostLabs
An AI platform that creates, schedules, and publishes faceless video content through dependable background workflows.
Project signal
Reliable long-running AI workflows with lower token and API costs
- Developed backend features and queued workflows for long-running content generation, scheduling, and publishing jobs.
- Integrated Laravel AI SDK and Prism, then refined prompts to reduce token usage and API cost.
- Laravel
- Laravel AI SDK
- Prism
- Queues
02B2B commerce migration
BusinessLabels
A Laravel and Next.js commerce platform migrated from WooCommerce, built to handle a large specialist product catalogue reliably.
Project signal
15,000+ products synchronized through queued Laravel job batches
- Migrated products, categories, customers, orders, and related commerce data to a Vanilo-powered Laravel platform.
- Built queued job batches for 15,000+ products and integrated Elasticsearch, Mollie, Moneybird, and Google Places.
- Laravel
- Next.js
- Vanilo
- Elasticsearch
03Service operations
E-core
An operations system connecting customer orders, machine servicing, spare-parts work orders, inventory, and workforce planning.
Project signal
Orders, service history, inventory, planning, and invoicing in one system
- Built dashboards, service history, employee time tracking, and operational workflows for service teams.
- Integrated Google Calendar planning, activity logging, and Moneybird invoicing.
- Laravel
- MySQL
- Google Calendar
- Moneybird
04E-commerce migration
Bouwbeslag
A WooCommerce-to-Laravel migration with a Next.js storefront for a large door and window hardware catalogue.
Project signal
Search, caching, daily stock updates, payments, and invoicing for a live store
- Migrated catalogue and commerce data while developing product, pricing, stock, delivery, cart, and account flows.
- Implemented Elasticsearch-powered discovery and reliable integrations across the storefront and backend.
- Laravel
- Next.js
- WooCommerce
- Elasticsearch
Public work & engineering
Clear code. Practical decisions. Production awareness.
My GitHub includes public experiments and earlier portfolio work. Client repositories stay private, but the same focus on maintainability, delivery, and useful trade-offs carries across both.
View GitHub profile- 01Translate business workflows into software people can operate confidently.
- 02Keep complex integrations observable, testable, and resilient in production.
- 03Choose the simplest interaction that helps a user finish the job faster.
Education
Formal foundations and continued learning.
2023 — Present
Higher Diploma in Software Engineering
International College of Business and Technology (ICBT)
In progress
Completed
Diploma in Software Engineering
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM)
2016
G.C.E. Advanced Level · Mathematics Stream
Sri Lanka
3 S passes
2013
G.C.E. Ordinary Level
Sri Lanka
8 A passes · 1 B pass
Contact
Need a Laravel engineer who can own the full stack?
I am open to remote software engineering roles and selective freelance work involving Laravel, modern JavaScript frontends, APIs, integrations, commerce, or production systems.