Laxit Patel
PHP Full Stack Developer · Laravel · Vue.js / React · Remote
Summary
Seasoned PHP and Laravel full stack developer (web since 2017, 2× AWS Certified Developer) specializing in ERP-integrated portals, multi-tenant SaaS, and high-traffic B2B workflows. Lead engineer on SAP S/4HANA–backed Laravel systems—master data sync, RBAC, approval chains, and REST/JSON APIs—plus dealer and procure-to-pay products featured in an AWS case study. Strong front ends with Vue 3 and React (Inertia): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX-driven UX. WordPress/WooCommerce custom plugins and hooks; MySQL/PostgreSQL; Redis queues; PHPUnit/Pest; GitLab/GitHub CI/CD. Available for remote delivery across time zones.
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
- PHP 8.x · OOP · Laravel (MVC) 11–13
- MySQL · PostgreSQL
- JavaScript · HTML · CSS · AJAX
- Vue.js 3 · React · Inertia.js
- REST APIs · SAP S/4HANA JSON integration
- WordPress · WooCommerce · custom hooks
- Redis · queues · Horizon-style job processing
- RBAC · Spatie Permission · multitenancy
- Stripe · SaaS billing
- PHPUnit · Pest · Selenium (where needed)
- AWS (2× Certified Developer) · Docker · CI/CD
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
Dealer Order Portal & DMS
Lead engineer · Laravel · SAP S/4HANA · AWS · AeonX Digital
- Internet-facing dealer portal on Laravel (CloudFront, ELB, Graviton EC2) with SAP as system of record — product/price/dealer master data push, order capture, bulk Excel orders, live credit checks, announcements, granular RBAC.
- Secured JSON APIs to S/4HANA in a peered VPC; hybrid AWS + on-prem plant stack — Python IoT capture → local MySQL → periodic SAP sync; conveyor-line display for packaging floor.
- Official AWS Industries case study (2022): credited as lead engineer; reported ~50% faster dealer onboarding, ~60% fewer support calls, 500+ dealers, peak-day high SKU order volume, 47% infra cost improvement on Graviton.
SAP Procure-to-Pay Portal
Laravel offload · SAP S/4HANA · enterprise manufacturing
- Replaced day-to-day SAP GUI procurement for plant users — SAP remains authoritative; workflows run in Laravel to reduce per-seat SAP licensing.
- Master data from SAP; create PRs and POs; real-time inventory views; full P2P chain PR → PO → GRN with approval gates.
- Complaint management with multi-level approval chains; RBAC across procurement and complaint roles.
Multi-tenant operations platform
Laravel 13 · Spatie multitenancy & permission · Laravel AI · PostgreSQL
- B2B SaaS with landlord console and tenant isolation — RBAC, workflow evidence uploads, REST ingestion from external geospatial and mobility APIs.
- AI agents turn natural-language briefs into schema-validated records; tiered scoring pipeline (density, traffic-weighted, semantic/LLM) with API fallbacks.
- GeoJSON heatmaps, Haversine POI proximity, map-driven planning UI; bulk spreadsheet ingestion pipelines.
Marketing attribution & link ops platform
Laravel 11 · Inertia · React · TypeScript · Stripe Cashier
- Multi-tenant agency workspace for UTM-tracked links — taxonomy tables (source, medium, channel, campaign, content, term), presets, bulk Excel import with DTO validation.
- Performance dashboards with timeframe filters; super-admin vs agency route partitions; Spatie roles/permissions.
- Stripe/Cashier subscription billing and payment-method flows for SaaS tenants.
Custom WordPress site & integrations
PHP · WordPress · WooCommerce · Docker Compose
- Custom action/filter hook layer for content, checkout, and admin flows without forking core.
- Payment gateway checkout — intents, webhooks, order state sync with commerce.
- Server-side SEO scoring (readability, metadata, on-page signals) in editor/admin UX; containerized WordPress + MariaDB stack.
Also: Rasohi (Laravel 12 + Inertia/React meal marketplace scaffold); Dihadi (Vue 3 + MV3 extension); clover-to-lcov OSS (PHPUnit → LCOV for CI).