Afrasiyab Haider

Professional summary

I partner with product and engineering on roadmap and trade-offs—latency, error budgets, cost of change—and own backend services through design, release, and production. I use metrics (performance, reliability, regressions) to prioritize work, communicate scope risks early, and keep APIs and data layers maintainable as products grow. Depth in Laravel, Symfony, and PostgreSQL; Vue and DevOps when the squad needs end-to-end delivery. For the past five years I have also mentored junior developers—pairing, code review, and growth-focused feedback.

Experience

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  Senior Backend Engineer (PHP / Laravel) / Technical Lead, Proxify AB

  Remote · Mar 2025 – Jan 2026 Full-time

  Laravel/PostgreSQL · API delivery · CI/CD
  PHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsDockerPostgreSQLElasticSearchRedisHTML / CSSCSSjQueryBootstrapTypeScriptMicroservicesTailwindUnit TestingDDDAgileGitAjaxJSONSQLiteDependency injectionMVCWeb TestingFunctional TestingREST APIPhpStormSwaggerLivewire
  • Led backend delivery for client projects: scalable Laravel/PostgreSQL services, clear integration boundaries, and prioritization under shifting requirements.
  • Shipped features end-to-end: REST-style APIs, data access, and service design aligned with client roadmaps and acceptance criteria.
  • Improved maintainability with clean architecture, DDD, unit and functional tests, and concise technical documentation.
  • Worked with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to scope work, manage trade-offs, and land releases predictably.
  • Hardened delivery with Docker, CI/CD, code review, and shared tooling (PhpStorm, Swagger, Git).
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  Senior PHP Web Developer, TLSContact

  Lisbon, Portugal · Sep 2022 – Feb 2025 Full-time

  ↓80% DB improvement, ↓90% performance gain
  PHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsMariaDBElasticSearchRedisCSSjQueryBootstrapMicroservicesPostmanAPIAjaxJSONVSCodeMVCREST APIHTML / CSSAutomation TestingManual TestingSwaggerKeycloakVite
  • Delivered REST APIs exposing core business capabilities to third-party integrators.
  • Achieved ~80% database performance improvement through targeted SQL and query optimization.
  • Built customer-facing web flows with real-time interaction and custom analytics for operations and product insight.
  • Refactored legacy code for clarity, safer change, and faster troubleshooting.
  • Drove ~90% application performance gain via caching, response-time work, and alignment with DB tuning.
  • Rolled out a microservices architecture: clearer service boundaries, reduced coupling, improved scalability.
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  Senior PHP Consultant, Aubay

  Lisbon, Portugal · Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 Consulting

  Client consulting · Laravel/Vue stack · Long-term delivery
  PHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsMariaDBElasticSearchRedisCSSjQueryBootstrapMicroservicesPostmanAPIJSONVSCodeMVCREST APIHTML / CSSAutomation TestingManual TestingSwaggerKeycloakLivewireVite
  • Delivered Laravel, Vue.js, Lumen, Postgres, and Redis work for 5+ consulting clients: targeted fixes, performance tuning, and safer integration with legacy systems.
  • Turned vague requests into scoped deliverables—short specs, data models, and API sketches—so client teams could approve work before build.
  • Hardened production issues: query bottlenecks, cache boundaries, and REST contracts between services and front ends.
  • Ran code reviews and technical escalations on client repositories to cut repeat defects and speed up onboarding for their developers.
  • Partnered with client PMs and QA on releases, regressions, and handover docs so engagements could continue without constant firefighting.
  • Supported knowledge transfer so client developers could maintain shipped features after handover.
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  Full Stack PHP Web Developer, INBOX Agency

  Lisbon, Portugal · Dec 2021 – Aug 2022 Full-time

  ↓35% downtime · Microservices · Monitoring & alerting
  PHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsMariaDBElasticSearchRedisCSSjQueryBootstrapMicroservicesPostmanSvelteAPIRabbitMQAjaxJSONVSCodeMVCSentryREST APIHTML / CSSAutomation TestingManual TestingChart.jsSvelteKitVuexInertia.jsVite
  • Shipped Laravel, Vue.js, and Svelte features for agency clients with high-traffic news and portal properties.
  • Split tightly coupled legacy areas into clearer modules and services so teams could deploy smaller, safer changes.
  • Built monitoring and alerting (Sentry plus Laravel/Vue dashboards) that reduced major-client downtime by ~35%—faster detection and fewer surprise outages.
  • Tuned caching, queues, and database hot paths for breaking-news spikes; documented runbooks so on-call was not guessing.
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  Project Manager and Lead Developer, Arcocia Tech

  Rawalpindi, Pakistan · Jul 2020 – Nov 2021 Full-time

  Multi-industry projects · PM + lead dev · On-time delivery
  PHPSymfonyLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsMariaDBCSSjQueryBootstrapCodeIgniterPostmanAPIAjaxJSONVSCodeMVCREST APIHTML / CSSManual TestingChart.js
  • Led 15+ PHP/Laravel and Symfony deliveries across health, real estate, entertainment, and HR—estimates, architecture, and hands-on coding.
  • Owned sprint planning and stakeholder updates; kept scope visible so parallel client work stayed predictable.
  • Standardized Git, deployment checklists, and code review habits so juniors and clients could ship without constant rework.
  • Integrated third-party APIs, payment hooks, and CMS-style admin flows where products needed more than CRUD.
  • Tracked budgets and timelines against milestones; escalated risks early instead of slipping deadlines quietly.
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  Web Developer, Schuja GmbH

  Essen, Germany · Jul 2016 – Jun 2020 Full-time

  Full-stack web solutions · Laravel/Vue · Multi-role delivery
  PHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptVue.jsMariaDBCSSjQueryBootstrapCodeIgniterAPIAjaxBitbucketJSONVSCodeMVCREST APIHTML / CSSManual TestingChart.jsVuexD3.js
  • Built Laravel/Vue.js sites and internal tools for a moving-services company: lead forms, booking flows, and integrations with CRM and logistics partners.
  • Delivered 10+ projects from PSD/HTML handoffs to production, including JSON/AJAX endpoints and third-party script hooks.
  • Balanced several concurrent builds with clear priorities, QA before release, and rollback plans for risky deploys.
  • Profiled and fixed slow pages and heavy forms in PHP and JavaScript; tightened validation to cut support noise.
  • Collaborated with non-technical stakeholders—translated business rules into concrete tickets and acceptance tests.

What clients say

Real feedback from colleagues and clients; personal names omitted for privacy.

• "He took ownership of our performance work and didn’t just fix the immediate issues—he helped us put monitoring and caching in place so we could avoid the same problems down the line. Very reliable."

• "Working with him on the migration was straightforward. He’s clear in stand-ups, documents decisions, and the code he leaves behind is easy to pick up. Good person to have on a cross-functional team."

• "We needed someone who could both ship features and help improve our Laravel setup. He did both—refactored some legacy areas and got our CI pipeline in better shape. Would recommend."

• "He’s the kind of developer who asks the right questions before coding. We got a solution that actually matched what the product needed, and the handover was smooth."

• "Strong PHP and Laravel skills, and he communicates well with non-technical stakeholders. Delivered on time and left good documentation for the team."