Afrasiyab Haider

Mar 2025 – Jul 2026

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

• On ayo.de (Proxify): led backend delivery with AI-assisted development, internationalization, and numerous parking/traffic provider integrations—improving performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• 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).

Sep 2022 – Feb 2025

Senior PHP Web Developer — TLSContact, Lisbon, Portugal

• 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.

Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 (Consulting alongside full-time at TLSContact.)

Senior PHP Consultant — Aubay, Lisbon, Portugal

• 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.

Dec 2021 – Aug 2022

Full Stack PHP Web Developer — INBOX Agency, Lisbon, Portugal

• 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.

Jul 2020 – Nov 2021

Project Manager and Lead Developer — Arcocia Tech, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

• 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.

Jul 2016 – Jun 2020

Web Developer — Schuja GmbH, Essen, Germany

• 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.

Backend

PHP, Laravel, MariaDB, MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MVC, API, REST API, Microservices, Lumen, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Keycloak, RabbitMQ, Algolia Search, ElasticSearch, LLM API integration

Frontend

JavaScript, Vue.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML / CSS, CSS, Ajax, JSON, Vuex, Chart.js, Svelte, Tailwind, SvelteKit, Livewire, Inertia.js, TypeScript

DevOps & tools

VSCode, Postman, Git, Jira, Sentry, AWS, Bitbucket, Docker, Swagger, Trello, Vite

Methods

Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Unit Testing, Project Management, Team Leading, Agile, AI-assisted development

PHP & Laravel

Building Web Applications in PHP (University of Michigan, Coursera); Laravel Additional Security; Laravel Configure, Validate, Authenticate and Authorize; Object-Oriented Programming with PHP; RESTful MVC Architecture

JavaScript

Computational Thinking with JavaScript; Data Manipulation in JavaScript (Coursera); JavaScript, University of Glasgow (Coursera)

DevOps & tools

Docker

Project management

Google Agile Project Management (Coursera)