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PostBox Communications

• First job as a developer: in-house builds for clients, from static sites to online stores.
• Magento and WooCommerce stores with payment gateways, shipping integrations and custom plugins.
• Responsive front ends in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, plus ongoing maintenance.

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• PHP
• Magento
• WooCommerce
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

Synergy Technology Services

• Built and maintained a Moodle LMS for a paramedical portal in Ontario, working directly with the client.
• Rebuilt performance-critical components in Laravel for speed and stability.
• Ran knowledge-transfer sessions to onboard new developers onto the project.
• Won first prize at the DigitalOcean × Venturesity hackathon in Mumbai (Oct 2016) with my mentor: a Laravel 5.3 package for the newly released Aadhaar API.

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• PHP
• Moodle
• Laravel
• Laravel packages
• Aadhaar API

Cactus Communications

• Led the migration of a legacy Drupal CRM to Laravel, moving the database from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
• Sole maintainer of the business-critical CRM and first escalation point for production defects.
• Profiled expensive queries and refactored legacy modules to pay down technical debt.
• Introduced design patterns and test-driven development with PHPUnit.

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• PHP
• Laravel
• Drupal
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• PHPUnit

ITCAN Technology

• Led a remote engineering team: task delegation, delivery schedules and client-facing technical calls across time zones.
• Ran code analysis for security issues and tech debt, then drove a structured remediation plan.
• Set team standards for code review, branching and releases; built a career framework for the team.

• Code review
• Branching strategy
• Release process
• Security review

Remunance IT (client: Woliba)

• Led engineering for Woliba as a remote role.
• Built the survey module, which later inspired my WhatsApp survey side project.

Upland Software

• Built and maintained Upland Credential Manager and Upland Analytics: multi-tenant SaaS on Laravel and Vue for enterprise customers.
• Designed and shipped MFA, and integrated enterprise SSO (Auth0, JumpCloud) into existing auth flows; added HSTS preload.
• Fixed memory exhaustion in the analytics widget pipeline with PHP generators and Eloquent cursor() lazy loading, so it processes multi-million-record datasets.
• Helped migrate a complex legacy platform from Zend Framework to Laravel. Wrote root-cause analyses and cut query cost with targeted indexing.

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// before: every row loaded at once → out of memory
$rows = Widget::where('report_id', $id)->get();

// after: one row in memory at a time
foreach (Widget::where('report_id', $id)->cursor() as $row) {
    yield transform($row);
}

• PHP
• Laravel
• Vue.js
• Eloquent
• Auth0
• JumpCloud
• MFA / SSO