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PHP Developer
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Professional summary
PHP Developer with 6 years building Laravel applications, REST APIs, and WooCommerce stores for e-commerce and education clients. Upgraded a legacy PHP 5 platform to PHP 8.2 and Laravel 10, cut page response times by 55% with query optimization and Redis caching, and built payment integrations handling 20K orders a month. Skilled in MySQL, Composer, PHPUnit, and Docker.
Skills
PHP · Laravel · MySQL · REST APIs · Composer · HTML / CSS · JavaScript basics · Git · Linux · Caching · Authentication · Unit testing
Experience
Senior PHP Developer — Company Name
2021 – Present
- Migrated a legacy PHP 5 codebase to PHP 8.2 and Laravel 10, removing 25K lines of duplicated code and closing SQL injection risks.
- Cut average page response time from 1.8s to 0.8s with Eloquent eager loading, MySQL indexes, and Redis caching.
- Built payment and shipping integrations for a WooCommerce store processing 20K orders per month.
- Moved email, invoice, and report generation to Laravel queues monitored with Horizon, reducing checkout timeouts by 90%.
- Wrote 400+ PHPUnit and Pest tests and added GitHub Actions CI, reducing post-release bug reports by 35%.
Projects
Online Course Platform | PHP 8, Laravel, MySQL, Livewire, Redis, Tailwind CSS
- Built course, lesson, and enrollment modules with Laravel Breeze authentication and instructor roles.
- Integrated Stripe payments with webhook signature verification and automatic enrollment after successful payment.
- Tracked video progress with Livewire components and cached the course catalog in Redis.