Laxit Patel
Platform engineer · CI/CD · AI agents · dev templates
Summary
Platform and developer-experience engineering: CI/CD with coverage, checks, and lint gates; RAG-style knowledge so developers see business logic while coding; internal AI agents for PR review and coding standards (company policy aligned); OSS packages for repetitive tasks; and standard Laravel boilerplates with auth, roles, and essentials for fast project startup.
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
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab)
- Code coverage (Clover → LCOV)
- Linting & quality gates
- GitHub Copilot / AI agents
- RAG / developer knowledge bases
- PR review automation
- Starter templates & coding standards
- Docker
- Integration tooling
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 — AWS + on-prem hybrid — IoT→SAP production, Laravel portal, VPC peering, Graviton migration.
- AgentZero — AI agent repo — client + developer surfaces; PR review, standards; teams host internal Copilot agents.
- clover-to-lcov — OSS — PHPUnit Clover to LCOV for pipeline coverage uploads.
- keychan — OSS PHP package — human-readable IDs for dev workflows.
- Phuse — Go CLI orchestrator for PHP static/runtime workflows.
- Jira ↔ Zoho sync — Multi-runtime integration workspace — automation and sync spikes.
- Knowledge MCP — MCP-oriented access to portfolio/project knowledge for agents.
- Eidos — Laravel 13 + Inertia/Vue starter — auth, roles, Vite.
- LPD — Laravel boilerplate — Tailwind 4, Bun, essentials to start fast.
- Portfolio — Knowledge ingest + Astro site — RAG-friendly project facts.