Laxit Patel
Go developer · OpenAPI · AWS
Summary
Go-first backend delivery: contract-first REST APIs, DynamoDB and AWS deployments, generated clients, and clear service boundaries. Comfortable pairing with Laravel or Node frontends when products need a polyglot stack.
Key achievements
- AWS Certified Developer (×2) — Two AWS developer-track certifications — cloud-native design, deployment, and operations on AWS.
- AWS Industries blog feature — Credited as lead engineer on Gopal Namkeen dealer order portal & DMS modernization in the official AWS Industries case study.
- Simform hackathon — winner — My team won the internal hackathon at Simform on our second attempt.
- Simform hackathon — runner-up — Runner-up on my first attempt at the Simform internal hackathon.
Skills
- Go / Golang
- OpenAPI / codegen
- REST APIs
- DynamoDB
- AWS (Lambda, CDK, SES)
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- Stripe / webhooks
- Microservices
Experience
Generative AI Engineer
- Senior engineer on AI workloads, alongside platform engineering to improve developer experience, an agentic AI harness and SecOps.
- Work with Claude Code and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Built a Go marketplace report ingestion engine on AWS Lambda and Step Functions: report types defined as YAML mappings, Parquet output, one OpenTofu apply per client.
- Built a scanner that finds code calling retiring vendor APIs, end-of-life runtimes and known CVEs, down to file and line with a sourced date, across a 50+ repository fleet; shipped as a Claude Code plugin.
Senior Software Engineer
- Product engineering in Laravel and Docker at a large engineering services company.
- Built an AI coding-agent framework: a registry and installer of model-agnostic agents (PR review, security audit) with a Go CLI, a gh extension and a parallel sub-agent PR reviewer.
- Worked across a production membership and venue-booking platform: a Laravel booking service, a Laminas dashboard, a NestJS venue service and a Node scheduler.
- Wrote the same Jira-to-Zoho sync in Bun/TypeScript, Go, Python and as a .NET MCP server to compare approaches.
- Runner-up (2024) and winner (2026) at the Simform internal hackathon.
AWS DevOps Engineer | Full-stack Laravel Developer
- Led a Laravel dealer order portal integrated with SAP S/4HANA (master data push, order capture, live credit checks, announcements, granular RBAC); featured in a public AWS Industries case study.
- Built an SAP procure-to-pay offload portal: PR → PO → GRN, real-time inventory from SAP, complaint management with multi-level approvals.
- Designed JSON API integrations and VPC-peered connectivity to S/4HANA; hybrid AWS and on-prem architecture.
PHP Laravel Junior Developer | System Administration
- Laravel web applications and system administration.
Web Developer | WordPress Developer | SEO
- WordPress sites and search engine optimisation.
Selected projects
- E-commerce & competition platform — Confidential — Golang API, OpenAPI, DynamoDB, Stripe, WebAuthn, CDK.
- Kridayam — Go services for booking; payments mesh design.
- Mythos — Go compiler + VM for narrative-language bytecode.
- Phuse — Go CLI — PHP static runtime orchestrator with TUI.
- Transport — Gleam layered HTTP API (CSV → SQLite) — systems sample.
- clover-to-lcov — OSS PHP package; strong CI/CD narrative.