- Branded FilamentPHP dashboard with custom management workflows
- Typeform registrations and OpenAI Batch API resume parsing into structured data
- LiveKit AI-managed interviews and Mux video processing
- ClickUp, Xero and Plutio integrations for project & finance flows
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// Senior Laravel Consultant & Developer
Mehrdad
Gharabaghi
I build, scale and modernize complex Laravel SaaS, then make it fast and wire AI into the parts that matter.
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$ php artisan about --developer
Name ............. Mehrdad Gharabaghi
Role ............. Senior Laravel Consultant & Developer
Based ............ Tabriz, Iran · remote with UK & UAE teams
Shipping since ... 2015
Focus ............ SaaS · Performance · Architecture · AI
Core stack ....... Laravel · FilamentPHP · Livewire · MySQL · Redis · Horizon
Speaks ........... Azerbaijani · Turkish · English · Persian
Status ........... ● open to consulting & long-term maintenance
Type "help" below. This shell is live.
10+years shipping production code, since Nov 2015
16products and platforms delivered
2scalendar load time, down from ~15s · POTS UK
4languages: Azerbaijani, Turkish, English, Persian
Most Laravel apps don’t need a rewrite. They need someone who knows where the time goes.
01 · Build
SaaS that keeps growing
FilamentPHP dashboards, subscriptions, job boards, compliance, reporting and admin workflows, designed so the next feature is easy.
02 · Rescue
Legacy, made fast
Slow queries, heavy reporting flows, missing indexes, queues and background jobs. I find where the seconds go and take them back.
03 · Augment
AI where it pays
Resume parsing, OpenAI validation, LiveKit interviews, Mux video, ERP order automation, wired into real Laravel workflows.
AI-assisted workflows speed up how I implement, review, find edge cases, write tests and document systems. Architecture and production quality stay under human engineering control.
01 / Request lifecycle
Every layer of a request.
Every layer of a request.
I’ve owned all six.
Follow the packet from route to response. Pick a stage to see what I’ve shipped at that layer, and where.
- Designed and maintained REST APIs and backend services for web and mobile apps.
- API-driven backends for Vue.js frontends, with real-time data flows over WebSockets.
Shipped at
Arashnia
TRIBES
Premium Sports Club
- Reviewed and hardened application security using OWASP practices.
- Implemented OAuth-based authentication and role-based access across platforms.
Shipped at
Arashnia
Azure Web Job Platform
- Built FilamentPHP platforms with branded UI, subscriptions, reporting and workflow automation.
- Program-based reporting, compliance tracking and survey scoring products.
Shipped at
MNCompliance
Safehub
Client Confidence
- Cut the POTS UK calendar availability view from ~15 seconds to ~2.
- Query optimization, indexing and caching on slow reporting flows.
Shipped at
POTS UK
TRIBES
- Redis queues and Horizon workers for AI pipelines: résumé parsing, AI interviews, email-to-ERP orders.
- Mux video processing and third-party sync jobs running in the background.
Shipped at
TRIBES
Avica UK
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions: automated tests, deployment pipelines and tag-based changelogs.
- Ongoing support, maintenance and improvements after delivery.
Shipped at
TRIBES
Gift Card Platform
02 / Career log
Eleven years,
Eleven years,
running in parallel.
Every bar is a team. Overlaps are real: long-term clients kept shipping while new ones began. Pick one to open its log.
- Built and maintained Laravel/FilamentPHP platforms with custom dashboards, branded UI, role-based access, subscriptions, reporting and workflow automation.
- Integrated OpenAI, Typeform, Mux, LiveKit, ActiveCampaign, Coderbyte, ClickUp, Plutio, Xero, Zoho, Stripe, ThriveCart, UCheck, JudoPay, DigitalOcean and ERP systems.
- Built AI features: resume parsing, developer validation, chatbots, AI-managed interviews, order extraction and document generation.
- Improved performance with query optimization, indexing, caching, Redis queues and Horizon workers.
- Created CI/CD with GitHub Actions: automated tests, deployment pipelines and tag-based changelogs.
- Designed and maintained REST APIs and backend services for web and mobile apps.
- Reviewed and hardened application security using OWASP practices; implemented OAuth-based authentication.
- Diagnosed performance degradation under growing traffic and tuned configuration, database access and backend code.
- Refactored the codebase so other engineers could keep developing it easily.
- Full-stack Laravel engineering for the company’s web products.
- Built and maintained the Laravel food-ordering web platform.
- Developed gamified Learning Management Systems used by organizations to lift learner engagement.
- Integrated and customized open-source JavaScript games inside learning platforms.
- Built reporting and analytics to measure engagement and gamification outcomes.
- Worked directly with business owners to design gamification for different organizations.
- First professional Laravel role, where the log begins.
03 / Case files
Sixteen systems.
Sixteen systems.
All in production.
- Receives inbound order emails and attachments
- AI extracts and structures order details
- Matches products and customers through the ERP API
- Dashboard to review and submit orders, backed by Horizon queues
- Program-based reporting workflows with standard question sets
- Reporting cycles for agencies to submit campaign data
- Dashboards for program, market, spend and campaign performance
- Real-time currency conversion across reports
- Configurable surveys advisors send to clients
- Scoring and generated PDF reports
- Subscriptions with Stripe Cashier, later migrated to ThriveCart
- Legacy data migrated into the new Laravel application
- Analytics dashboards for compliance and club management
- Role-based access for clubs and staff
- Subscription payments and automated background checks via UCheck
- Reworked the availability calculation logic
- Removed repeated database calls inside the hot loop
- Moved time-slot logic into efficient queries
- Supplier integrations for automated card delivery
- Automated order workflows and currency updates
- CI/CD and deployments with GitHub Actions
- Role-based management for super admins, admins, company users and applicants
- Multi-company management
- OpenAI extraction of structured candidate data; Zoho integration
- FilamentPHP dashboard for managing AI support bots
- Branding controls per persona
- OpenAI-powered persona responses
- Gamified roadmaps with point-based progression
- Badges and rewards for learning milestones
- Discussion rooms for learners
- REST APIs for the frontend
- Admin dashboard for platform data and operations
- WebSocket real-time handling for betting data
- Customers order from multiple stores at once
- Store and order management for vendors
- Companion Android app
- Online class booking and management
- Built end-to-end from zero
- Backend APIs for the mobile app
- Content and user management
- Custom admin panel
- Custom-built blog
- Custom CMS
- Hand-built interface animations
04 / Stack
A planet of tools.
A planet of tools.
Spin it.
Hover or drag the globe
41 tools in orbit
CORELaravel · PHP · FilamentPHP · Livewire · Alpine.js · Tailwind CSS · CodeIgniter
DATAMySQL · Redis · Horizon · Query Optimization · Caching · SQL
AIOpenAI API · AI-assisted Dev · Resume Parsing · GenAI
INTEGRATIONSStripe · ThriveCart · Mux · LiveKit · Typeform · Zoho · Xero · ClickUp · WebSocket · REST APIs
DELIVERYGitHub Actions · Docker · CI/CD · TDD · Test Automation · DevOps · OWASP
ALSOJavaScript · Vue.js · Node.js · Flutter · Android · Java · C#
One of the best developers I have worked with.
I worked with Mehrdad for 3 years and highly recommend him; he is a supportive teammate and a talented developer.
Education
M.Sc. Computer Software EngineeringSeraj University
2020 — 2022Engineer’s Degree, Computer Software EngineeringUniversity College of Nabi Akram
2011 — 2015
Languages
AzerbaijaniNative
TurkishNative
EnglishFull professional
PersianFull professional