Abrar Ahmad

5 years of experience Pakistan

A skilled and dedicated Laravel Engineer working in the web development for more than 4 years. Abrar has hands-on work experience collaborating on various projects ranging from e-commerce apps to CMSs and helping businesses to achieve their goals.

Always willing to learn and improve his skills, he is also open to share and believes in helping out the community by contributing to OSS to give back to the engineering community (https://opendor.me/abrardev99) as well as sharing the knowledge by writing useful articles (https://dev.to/abrardev99).

Vue.js PHP Laravel Livewire Alpine.js MySQL PostgreSQL JavaScript PHP Unit Pest API Design

Experience

Laravel Engineer

Sep, 2021 - Present

ArchTech

As a Laravel Engineer part of the team taking care of e-commerce app and OSS packages.

● Developed a multi-vendor e-commerce app selling digital products like packages, courses, or any other digital asset, including work on frontend design and backend development (the app is still work in progress, not public yet).
● Working as a full-stack - working on delivering a full feature, including frontend design, backend code, and database changes
● Creating the payment modules included charging customers and then letter paying out to sellers
● PHP Composer package delivery - distributing seller packages from the platform, complex module, fetching the package from GitHub and distributing it using Satis
● Using as main tech stack: TALL (TailwindCSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, Livewire), MySQL as a database, and Redis primarily for caching and Queues, write tests using Pest, GitHub actions are used for automation, and internally use Laravel Nova for admin panels and Laravel Forge for deployments

● Multi-tenancy and other OSS packages
● Fixing the issues reported on GitHub, fixing reported bugs including communication with OP, reproducing the problem, and sending a PR
● Working with the team on the tenancy's next major package version
● TechStack: Laravel packages, PHP & Laravel is the main stack here. Databases included MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and SQLite
Technologies: Laravel, Forge, Livewire, Tailwind CSS, Pest, PHP, Alpine.js, GitHub, Basecamp, CI/CD

FullStack PHP Laravel Developer

Jan, 2020 - Aug, 2021

Pen Yazilim

Building web applications from the ground up together with a small team.

Projects:

1. Content Management System for Restaurants
● Developed the content management system for restaurants only, unlike general CMS, it was for restaurants to enter specific data and generate reports based on the data
● Working as a full-stack developer on the project, developed the project from scratch, including frontend and backend
● TechStack: PHP & Laravel, Livewire for interactivity, Bootstrap for responsive frontend, Jquery, MySQL as database engine

2. News publishing platform - a unique platform for a news agency where users can publish news automatically posted on the company's social media handles like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
● Working as a full-stack developer on the project. I developed the project from scratch, including frontend and backend.
● TechStack: PHP & Laravel, Bootstrap for responsive frontend, Jquery, MySQL as database engine
Technologies: Laravel, MySQL, Livewire, Alpine.js, Bootstrap, jQuery

Laravel Developer

Feb, 2019 - Dec, 2020

Innovar Healthcare

Working as a junior developer, mentored by a senior developer, on a health care product - an admin panel that received data and gave valuable insights - collaborating on delivering the tasks assigned and sending PR using the following tech stack: Laravel, PostgreSQL, Jquery, Bootstrap, Excel (for some data manipulation).
Technologies: Laravel, PostgreSQL, jQuery, Bootstrap, Excel

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

2015 - 2019

National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Intermediate in Computer Science

2013 - 2015

Superior College, Pakpattan, Pakistan