Professional Summary

Senior full-stack developer and backend AI systems engineer specializing in Laravel/PHP application engineering, AI knowledge platforms, marketplace systems, relational database design, secure API integration, asynchronous processing, cloud object storage, production diagnostics and Linux deployment.

Experienced building systems that separate web requests, background jobs, data imports, API services, storage and database workloads.

Recent engineering work includes a multi-vendor marketplace, a separately deployed Laravel AI/API service, authenticated server-to-server communication, Redis-backed synchronization, PostgreSQL knowledge storage, partner-specific AI retrieval, Article Knowledge synchronization, Question Insights, and custom Filament infrastructure diagnostics.

Additional work includes Enterprise Document Intelligence architecture, private Cloudflare R2 document storage, dedicated Linux server administration, Ansible deployment testing and encrypted backup automation.

Core Technical Skills

Laravel Marketplace Engineering

Designed and developed a custom Laravel marketplace platform with administrative, partner, catalog, service-directory, CMS and distributed backend capabilities.

• Built multi-vendor and multi-store marketplace foundations.
• Developed product, category, variant, image and media data structures.
• Created vendor, store and manufacturer management workflows.
• Built service-professional directory models and categories.
• Developed Laravel Filament marketplace resources.
• Implemented PostgreSQL-backed marketplace storage.
• Integrated Cloudflare R2 for persistent media storage.
• Built partner-facing product management workflows.
• Implemented CMS pages, reusable sections and navigation settings.
• Designed large-catalog architecture for manufacturer and vendor data.

AI & API Systems Development

Developed the foundation of a separately deployed Laravel AI/API service connected to a primary marketplace application without exposing private service credentials to public browsers.

• Deployed an independent Laravel 13 API service.
• Configured PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Implemented Laravel Sanctum API authentication.
• Created API client records with permissions and allowed scopes.
• Built authenticated server-to-server communication.
• Developed middleware for client and scope validation.
• Implemented Redis-backed rate limiting.
• Tested controlled HTTP 429 rate-limit responses.
• Implemented API usage tracking and request logging.
• Developed structured API validation and responses.
• Created searchable entity models for homes, products, experts, stores, builders and manufacturers.
• Separated AI service storage from the marketplace database.

Partner-Scoped AI & Knowledge Systems

Designed and implemented organization-specific AI knowledge retrieval so customer questions can be answered using the selected business’s approved knowledge.

• Built partner-scoped AI retrieval.
• Used external organization identifiers for knowledge mapping.
• Extended API request handling with a dedicated partner scope.
• Filtered knowledge by the selected organization.
• Prevented unrelated marketplace entity results from appearing in partner searches.
• Returned partner identity and source information.
• Verified organization isolation with negative tests.
• Developed customer-facing Ask This Business functionality.

AI Article Knowledge & Content Intelligence

Developed a long-form knowledge layer that extends organization-scoped AI beyond short question-and-answer records into reusable business articles.

• Developed Article Knowledge creation and management.
• Designed article ownership and organization relationships.
• Built article synchronization between Laravel services.
• Integrated articles into partner AI search.
• Worked with article chunking for targeted retrieval.
• Combined business articles and Q&A knowledge.
• Designed a reusable knowledge platform for manufacturers, builders and service businesses.
• Planned authorized website-content ingestion and human review workflows.

PostgreSQL Fuzzy Search & AI Retrieval

Engineered typo-tolerant business knowledge retrieval using PostgreSQL trigram search, weighted relevance ranking and organization-specific knowledge.

• Implemented PostgreSQL pg_trgm fuzzy search.
• Created GIN trigram search indexes.
• Developed weighted relevance ranking.
• Used PostgreSQL word_similarity() for matching.
• Integrated fuzzy retrieval with partner data isolation.
• Verified typo-tolerant searches across Laravel services.
• Tested trigram indexes through production diagnostics.

AI Knowledge Synchronization & Lifecycle

Developed synchronization workflows for partner questions, answers and business knowledge between independent Laravel applications.

• Implemented automatic Q&A synchronization.
• Used Laravel model lifecycle events.
• Built Redis-queued synchronization jobs.
• Configured retries, backoff and timeouts.
• Implemented tombstones for disabled and deleted records.
• Developed knowledge reactivation behavior.
• Applied source timestamps and stale-write protection.
• Verified synchronization against remote database state.

Secure AI Gateway & API Architecture

Designed a secure public-to-private application boundary for customer-facing AI requests.

• Built server-side AI gateway architecture.
• Protected private service credentials from browser JavaScript.
• Resolved partner identity using trusted Laravel records.
• Combined CSRF protection and endpoint throttling.
• Implemented Sanctum authentication and API permissions.
• Separated public requests from privileged API communication.
• Created reusable partner AI service methods.

Distributed Systems Testing & Data Integrity

Performed end-to-end verification across Laravel applications, Redis queues, authenticated APIs and PostgreSQL databases.

• Tested partner data isolation.
• Verified synchronization against remote database records.
• Tested deletion and reactivation behavior.
• Validated stale-update protection.
• Tested browser-to-AI-server question flows.
• Used Laravel Tinker and Artisan diagnostics.
• Inspected Redis queues and failed jobs.
• Performed syntax checks and database verification.
• Applied controlled deployment and post-change testing.

Distributed Data Synchronization

Implemented asynchronous synchronization between independently deployed Laravel applications and PostgreSQL databases.

• Created automatic product synchronization jobs.
• Transmitted updates through secure HTTPS APIs.
• Used Redis queues and persistent workers.
• Mapped source identifiers across databases.
• Implemented synchronization timestamps.
• Prevented delayed jobs from overwriting newer records.
• Handled active, inactive and deleted entities.
• Implemented tombstone synchronization.
• Verified complete cross-server data flow.

Production System Diagnostics

Built a custom Laravel Filament diagnostics system for testing local and remote application dependencies from a single administrative interface.

• Created a consolidated System Diagnostics dashboard.
• Implemented PASS/FAIL reporting.
• Measured diagnostic execution times.
• Verified Laravel application health.
• Tested PostgreSQL connectivity.
• Implemented Redis PING checks.
• Tested cache write/read/delete operations.
• Checked queue configuration.
• Monitored required worker processes.
• Tested Cloudflare R2 operations.
• Implemented authenticated cross-server diagnostics.
• Separated local failures from remote service failures.

Redis Queues & Worker Operations

Implemented asynchronous processing to separate background workloads from customer-facing HTTP requests.

• Configured Redis-backed Laravel queues.
• Created dedicated synchronization queues.
• Configured Supervisor-managed workers.
• Implemented worker logging and monitoring.
• Developed background entity synchronization.
• Separated remote API work from web requests.
• Worked with synchronization and import worker processes.

Catalog Import & Integration Systems

Developed marketplace import architecture for vendor and manufacturer product catalogs.

• Designed product catalog ingestion workflows.
• Worked with REST API, CSV, XML, JSON and SFTP patterns.
• Implemented background-processing approaches.
• Developed Filament product and category administration.
• Integrated Cloudflare R2 media handling.
• Designed validation for large catalog imports.
• Planned workload separation for high-volume processing.

CMS, Filament & Administration

• Built custom Laravel CMS page models.
• Developed reusable page-section architecture.
• Created menu and navigation-setting administration.
• Built configurable storefront navigation layouts.
• Developed Filament resources for products and vendors.
• Created partner-facing administration workflows.
• Implemented authorization controls.
• Developed reusable hero and content components.
• Built application configuration resources.

Media & OTT Development

Experience developing web-based media systems and data structures for audio, video, images and live content.

• Video and media management workflows.
• Cloudflare R2 object storage.
• Media metadata including thumbnails and duration.
• Live-stream records and scheduling references.
• Entity-to-media relationships.
• HLS playback integration.
• FFmpeg, RTMP and WebRTC experience.
• Laravel-controlled media metadata.
• OTT application architecture.

WordPress Development

Extensive WordPress development experience including custom themes, custom plugins, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, PHP customization, REST API integrations, migrations, performance optimization, hosting, security and Linux administration.

Experience designing WordPress frontend workflows that communicate with dedicated Laravel applications and APIs.

Server & Cloud Infrastructure

• Ubuntu and Rocky Linux administration.
• Nginx, Apache and PHP-FPM configuration.
• PostgreSQL and MySQL application databases.
• Redis caching, sessions and queues.
• Supervisor process management.
• Cloudflare DNS, SSL/TLS and R2 storage.
• VPS application deployment.
• Git-based deployment workflows.
• Database and application backup automation.
• Cross-server diagnostics and troubleshooting.

AI Question Insights & Knowledge Automation

Developed Laravel workflows that capture customer questions, identify knowledge gaps and help businesses turn those questions into reusable AI knowledge.

• Created Question Insights database storage.
• Developed API endpoints for recording insights.
• Implemented retrieval of recorded customer questions.
• Associated insights with partner organizations.
• Built conversion from insights to structured Q&A.
• Implemented idempotent conversion behavior.
• Tested HTTP 409 conflict responses.
• Worked with answer-source attribution.
• Verified functionality through Laravel Tinker and API testing.
• Developed partner-facing Question Insights administration.

Enterprise Document Intelligence Engineering

Designed and developed foundational Laravel components for private business-document intelligence and external document-processing workers. Additional end-user workflows remain under development.

• Created partner document database structures.
• Developed document-processing job tables.
• Created document-worker credential storage.
• Designed authenticated worker claim endpoints.
• Designed worker download and completion endpoints.
• Implemented database constraints for active jobs.
• Separated document metadata from processing workloads.
• Developed Filament partner-document resource foundations.
• Reviewed upload and document-creation authorization.
• Designed dedicated-server document-processing architecture.
• Planned private AI search over authorized business documents.

Private Document Storage & Tenant Security

Applied organization-level access controls and private object-storage principles to enterprise document architecture.

• Configured private Cloudflare R2 storage.
• Designed organization-specific document access.
• Worked with document viewing and upload permissions.
• Designed private document AI-query authorization.
• Developed Super Admin-controlled service enablement architecture.
• Worked with worker authentication credentials.
• Reviewed restricted document download pathways.
• Designed storage workflows without public document URLs.
• Applied multi-tenant isolation principles.

Ansible & Server Automation

Practiced repeatable infrastructure deployment and server configuration using Ansible and SSH-based Linux administration.

• Developed and tested modular service deployments.
• Worked with Ansible automation on Linux VPS systems.
• Configured Nginx and PHP-FPM environments.
• Verified application endpoints after deployment.
• Used SSH terminal commands for server administration.
• Performed Windows PowerShell connectivity tests.
• Diagnosed SSH access and network problems.
• Applied repeatable deployment verification procedures.
• Explored modular API services deployed on independent VPS servers.

Linux & Dedicated Server Security

Administered Linux VPS environments and a Dell PowerEdge R630 dedicated server, including service management, SSH protection and firewall troubleshooting.

• Worked with Ubuntu, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux.
• Administered a Dell PowerEdge R630 server.
• Inspected running services and server configurations.
• Monitored disk usage and filesystem capacity.
• Configured and checked Fail2Ban SSH protection.
• Worked with firewalld security rules.
• Diagnosed SSH port 22 connectivity.
• Used PowerShell Test-NetConnection.
• Planned separation of application and processing servers.
• Preserved security services during server administration.

Cloud Backups, Encryption & Recovery Verification

Developed and tested Linux backup workflows using Cloudflare R2, rclone, archive scripts, encryption and checksum verification.

• Configured rclone connectivity to Cloudflare R2.
• Verified remote backup bucket access.
• Created and inspected server backup archives.
• Worked with full-server backup scripts.
• Applied filesystem exclusion rules.
• Used GPG encryption for backup protection.
• Used SHA-256 checksum verification.
• Inspected local backup sizes and logs.
• Verified remote backup objects.
• Reviewed Redis and database backup requirements.

AI Client Experiences, Landing Pages & Media

Developed client-facing presentations and interactive web experiences that help businesses understand and test AI knowledge services.

• Created dark-mode HTML landing pages.
• Developed light-blue branded interfaces.
• Prepared AI demonstration search keywords.
• Designed business-specific AI demonstration experiences.
• Worked with partner branding and domain-routing concepts.
• Integrated HTML5 audio playback.
• Evaluated HLS audio-player interfaces.
• Designed business chatbot widget experiences.
• Created email call-to-action interfaces.
• Developed responsive customer-facing pages.

Development Approach

Hands-on across application architecture, database design, backend development, frontend integration, server deployment, debugging and production operations.

Uses AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, documentation and troubleshooting while retaining direct control of architecture and production decisions.

Development emphasizes maintainable boundaries between applications, databases, APIs, queues, workers and storage so workloads can be monitored, debugged and scaled independently.