About
Building backend systems that
actually ship — for 12 years.
Fifty-plus projects across industries — e-commerce platforms, SaaS dashboards, WordPress plugins, REST APIs, booking systems, and membership portals. Most of it lives on client servers, not public repos, but the breadth and the scars are real.
Currently backend architect at Kodezen, where I developed ZenCommunity and GemCRM — products owned and published by Kodezen — from zero to production in under three months each. Three pull requests merged into the official Laravel ecosystem.
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Three pull requests merged into the Laravel ecosystem. Small contributions, but they went through real review, met the project's coding standards, and landed in production for millions of users.
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Experience
Backend developer on Kodezen's commercial WordPress plugin suite. Sole architect and engineer of the ZenCommunity backend — community members, groups, discussions, activity feed, live chat module, notifications, REST API — and GemCRM backend — contacts, pipeline, tags, email campaigns, automation workflows, REST API. Both built from zero and shipped in under 3 months each. Also contributed features across Academy (LMS), ABlocks (block builder), StoreEngine (eCommerce), and GemBoards (kanban). Three pull requests merged into the Laravel ecosystem.
Delivered 20+ custom web applications for international clients — SaaS platforms, membership portals, e-commerce systems, and dashboard products. Full lifecycle ownership: architecture, API design, third-party integrations, performance tuning, and deployment. Stack: PHP (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, WordPress) with React and Vue frontends.
Nine years of client work spanning 30+ projects — e-commerce stores, booking systems, business portals, custom CMS platforms, and company websites for SMBs to international clients. Became fluent across the full stack: Linux server setup, PHP backend (Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter), MySQL schema design, WordPress customisation, payment gateway integrations, and JavaScript frontends.
Projects
Selected highlights. Most client work is under NDA or lives on private servers — these are the pieces I can show publicly.
A WordPress plugin by Kodezen that brings together community groups, social feeds, real-time chat, and a full support ticketing system in one native plugin. Backend developed from zero in under 3 months.
A WordPress plugin by Kodezen that helps businesses manage contacts, send email campaigns, and automate follow-ups — all from the WordPress dashboard, with no third-party tools needed. I built the entire backend from scratch in under 3 months.
Zero-dependency PHP library for building modern CLI applications — argument parsing, styled terminal output, interactive prompts, tables, and progress bars. MIT licence.