Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Senior PHP & Laravel Engineer | 11+ Years | SaaS · Fintech · LegalTech

I design and ship backend systems that scale reliably under real production load — from multi-tenant SaaS platforms to high-throughput event pipelines.

Over 11 years, I've built production-grade applications across SaaS, fintech, insurance, and legal-tech using PHP 8, Laravel 10/11, Node.js, MySQL, and MongoDB — with a strong focus on clean architecture, SOLID principles, and TDD (PEST).

Recent self-driven project: built an LLM-powered resume-matching tool (Laravel + Groq) with async queue processing and an AI observability dashboard tracking token usage, latency, and prompt performance — hands-on experience integrating AI into production-style architecture, on my own initiative.

What I deliver — API design & third-party integrations: QuickBooks, Stripe, TokBox, HMRC, across multiple regulated industries — Performance engineering: 30%+ reduction in API response times via query optimisation and caching — Cloud & serverless: AWS Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch — production-grade high-throughput event pipelines — Security: proactive CVE resolution via Snyk, runtime upgrades ahead of vulnerabilities — Team leadership: led teams of 5+ engineers; mentored juniors into stronger code-review contributors, cutting review cycle time [add a number if you have one]

Core stack PHP 8 · Laravel · Node.js · Express.js · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · AWS (Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, S3) · Docker · REST APIs · Microservices · CI/CD · TDD

Currently: Senior Software Engineer at IRIS Software Group, building and optimising Elements Taxfiler — a large-scale tax SaaS platform — across PHP, Node.js, and .NET.