• Develop and maintain custom built back office site for running all aspects of business operations.• Develop RESTful APIs using Laravel to decouple monolithic codebases.• Implement Redis for processing large scale asynchronous tasks, optimizing performance.

• Collaborated on building next generation applications in Laravel, processing large datasets from Amazon, ChannelAdvisor and distribution centers globally.• Developed Laravel based APIs for inventory, product and sales forecasting integrations with external partners.• Maintained legacy codebases using Zend and MySQL for internal operations and reporting.

• Refactored legacy systems into scalable and maintainable Laravel RESTful API microservices.• Spearheaded the development of multiple automation tools for tour guides, streamlining manual processes to significantly improve efficiency and enhance the user experience.• Collaborated with international and local departments to understand their vision, ensuring project requirements were met and delivered within scope.-- Projects -- • API development in Laravel to process all e-commerce, distributor and affiliate sales. Variety of endpoints to add/remove cart items, apply promo codes and finalize the booking process. This API interacts with a variety of other Laravel APIs via Guzzle to verify inventory, products, process payment transactions and send email confirmations to customers.• Built automation tools allowing guides to assign themselves to lead tours that previously was a manual assignment process for internal personnel. Frontend UX built in CakePHP with JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and Bootstrap. Backend RESTful API built in Laravel accessing MySQL databases. • Built a feature allowing guides the ability to switch tours with their colleagues without interacting with internal personnel. CakePHP with JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and Bootstrap accessing MySQL databases.• Refactor legacy code into a more manageable and expandable structure. This was achieved by converting code into Laravel RESTful API endpoints.

• PHP 5.x development with MySQL databases.• MVC framework development focused on controller light, model heavy logic.• MVC frameworks: Yii and Zend.• Functioned in a team to build and enhance our custom white label solutions. Large applications that involved Ecommerce, Admin, Retail and Api in the telecom sector.• Built API calls interacting with external partner’s products we included with our services.• Involved in a year long project to rebuild a large deprecated codebase from Zend to the Yii framework and bring it up to current standards.• Participated in redesigning MySQL databases tables for the rebuilt project.