Backend Engineer with 5 years building and modernizing high-traffic PHP/Laravel platforms. At PlusClouds I led a phased Laravel 5-to-7 modernization of a platform serving 100K+ daily visitors, shipped a versioned REST API documented with Swagger/OpenAPI, and cut database load with Redis caching under production traffic.
- Day to day: Laravel APIs, Redis performance work, Docker-based deployment, MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Research: cross-lingual transfer learning for fake-news detection in low-resource languages (MSc Computer Engineering, in progress)
- Open source: contributor at @nextdeveloper-nl (marketplace, stay, crm) — maintainer of theharvester-service
- BSc thesis: web-based container orchestration system
Backend: PHP, Laravel, REST & GraphQL APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI)
Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Linux, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS
Testing: PHPUnit (feature & unit)