Afrasiyab Haider

Senior Backend Engineer (PHP / Laravel) / Technical Lead

Proxify AB | Remote · Mar 2025 – Jan 2026

• 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).

Senior PHP Web Developer

TLSContact | Lisbon, Portugal · Sep 2022 – Feb 2025

• 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.

Senior PHP Consultant

Aubay | Lisbon, Portugal · Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 (Consulting alongside full-time at TLSContact.)

• 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.

Full Stack PHP Web Developer

INBOX Agency | Lisbon, Portugal · Dec 2021 – Aug 2022

• 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.

Project Manager and Lead Developer

Arcocia Tech | Rawalpindi, Pakistan · Jul 2020 – Nov 2021

• 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.

Web Developer

Schuja GmbH | Essen, Germany · Jul 2016 – Jun 2020

• 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.

B.Sc. Information Technology

PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan · Feb 2020

• Bronze Medal for academic excellence
• Dean's Scholarship (2016)
• Dean's List (2018)

High School Diploma

Zamindar Post Graduate College, Gujrat, Pakistan · Sep 2015

Backend

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

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

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)