My Portfolio
Below you'll find examples of my work, highlighting experience in full-stack development, SaaS architecture, AI integration, and performance optimization. Each project represents a unique challenge and a tailored solution.
AI Agent Content SaaS Platform (Laravel/Vue.js)
Challenge: Develop a full-featured B2B SaaS platform from scratch using Laravel and Vue.js. The core challenge involved integrating a complex backend system orchestrating multiple AI agents and performing large-scale, sophisticated web scraping for real-time data, alongside standard SaaS user/billing management.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Built the entire full-stack application utilizing Laravel for the backend API and Vue.js for the frontend. Employed Laravel Jetstream with Fortify for authentication and team management features.
- Implemented the subscription billing and credit-based usage system using Laravel Spark integrated with Paddle.
- Designed and developed the backend orchestration logic in Laravel to manage workflows involving numerous AI agents, leveraging Laravel Queues (Redis/Horizon) for handling asynchronous tasks efficiently.
- Integrated multiple third-party AI APIs, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI, and xAI, into the agent workflows.
- Engineered extensive custom web scraping capabilities within the Laravel backend, specifically targeting search engines and other web sources. This involved implementing advanced techniques such as headless browser automation, CAPTCHA solving, sophisticated proxy rotation, and various anti-bot circumvention strategies.
- Utilized MySQL for the application database, designing the schema to support users, teams, projects, AI tasks, credits, and scraped data.
- Developed API connections from the Laravel backend to external platforms, such as WordPress, enabling automated content publishing.
Key Impact: Successfully delivered a robust and scalable B2B SaaS application on the Laravel/Vue.js stack, featuring advanced AI agent orchestration, complex anti-bot web scraping, and integrated subscription management via Spark/Paddle.
Automated Link Building Outreach Platform
Challenge: Develop a system capable of performing link-building outreach at an immense scale, automating the discovery, contact finding, and email process continuously.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Architected and built a highly scalable platform using Laravel, heavily leveraging queues for massive throughput across 30+ servers.
- Engineered a custom, large-scale web scraping engine utilizing headless browsers, advanced anti-bot circumvention (automatic CAPTCHA solving, intelligent proxy rotation).
- Implemented logic to automatically identify high-value link opportunities and discover website operator contact details from scraped data.
- Developed a fully automated email outreach system capable of sending personalized campaigns at scale.
- Designed the system for perpetual, independent operation, continuously finding and pursuing millions of opportunities monthly.
Key Impact: Created an enterprise-grade automation engine achieving unprecedented scale in link building, processing millions of opportunities and autonomously driving outreach.
Financial Workflow SaaS with AI Reports
Challenge: Build a SaaS product where users can define financial workflows, watch market data, and receive reports when something important changes.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Built the core workflow layer for instruments, portfolios, triggers, report templates, and generated reports.
- Connected market-data APIs and normalized the data needed for price targets, schedules, and signal-based workflows.
- Added AI report generation and assistant flows while keeping validation, state, and billing inside the product.
- Implemented credits, Stripe billing, queues, background execution, and user-facing report views.
- Worked across database design, backend services, Vue/Inertia screens, and production hardening.
Key Impact: A financial SaaS product that can watch data, run workflows, and turn the result into reports customers can actually use.
Ultra-Fast Big Data Search Platform (200M+ Records)
Challenge: Deliver instantaneous (<50ms), typo-tolerant search results across a massive dataset (>200 million records) while ensuring high availability.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Leveraged MeiliSearch for its exceptional speed and typo-tolerance capabilities.
- Architected and implemented a sophisticated multi-layer caching strategy (application, DB, search index) to meet strict performance goals.
- Applied big data processing techniques for efficient data handling and indexing.
- Managed robust DevOps practices across multiple servers for scalability and reliability.
- Developed a secure API for external partner integration.
Key Impact: Built an exceptionally performant and resilient search platform capable of handling huge datasets with millisecond response times.
SaaS Platform Modernization & AI Integration
Challenge: Revitalize an underperforming SaaS application with modern tech, improved UX, and new AI-driven features to regain market competitiveness.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Architected and led a full-stack rewrite using Laravel & Vue.js for enhanced performance and maintainability.
- Engineered a sophisticated AI business name generator (OpenAI API), differentiating the product.
- Designed a unified user state system (guest/registered) managing favorites/history seamlessly.
- Implemented multi-layered anti-abuse mechanisms (crawlers, spam signups).
- Developed an integrated multi-step marketing funnel to improve upsell conversions.
- Built custom analytics & tracking for deeper user insights beyond off-the-shelf tools.
- Optimized high-throughput domain checks (DNS/Registrar APIs) for speed under load.
- Introduced background job processing for a non-blocking user experience.
Key Impact: Delivered a faster, scalable, AI-enhanced platform with improved user engagement and operational efficiency.
Healthcare SaaS Refactoring & Integrations
Challenge: Clean up and extend an active healthcare SaaS without breaking clinical workflows, privacy-sensitive data, or existing booking integrations.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Refactored the property access model from permission bypasses to explicit memberships, with policies, scopes, UI, migrations, and tests updated across the app.
- Standardized booking API code by moving the existing integration to a typed Saloon gateway instead of mixed raw HTTP patterns.
- Built a second booking-provider integration with property onboarding, OAuth staff login, data sync, appointments, notes, classes, webhooks, and parity tests.
- Hardened OAuth flows, webhook verification, tenant scoping, destructive write guards, permission checks, and rollout migrations.
- Cleaned up Laravel/Vue code while production workflows for appointments, notes, billing, client cases, and staff access kept running.
Key Impact: A mature healthcare SaaS kept moving while integration code, access control, and high-risk workflows became cleaner and safer to extend.
AI-Powered SEO CMS & Freelancer Automation
Challenge: Scale SEO content production efficiently by automating the entire workflow, from keyword research to publishing, integrating directly with freelancer marketplaces.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Developed a bespoke CMS focused purely on automated SEO content pipelines.
- Integrated features for fully automated keyword research and relevant content idea generation.
- Engineered API connections to major freelancer platforms for automatic job posting and assignment based on generated ideas.
- Built automated processes for ingesting completed freelancer content.
- Implemented automatic content formatting, intelligent interlinking between articles, and SEO-optimized publishing routines.
Key Impact: Launched a highly automated system that drastically reduced manual effort in content creation, enabling rapid scaling of SEO-focused content via freelancer collaboration.
AI-Driven Content Engine for Blog Network
Challenge: Automate content creation and management across multiple movie blogs to ensure fresh, SEO-optimized content with minimal manual effort.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Developed a custom Laravel platform to orchestrate content workflows.
- Engineered reliable data ingestion pipelines from large movie/TV databases (TMDb API).
- Implemented AI-powered content generation (OpenAI API) tailored for SEO and engaging summaries.
- Built automated scheduling and publishing mechanisms for timely content delivery.
- Ensured continuous data monitoring for updates (new releases, data changes).
Key Impact: Created a powerful automation platform that dramatically scaled content production, reduced manual workload, and enhanced SEO potential via AI.
Backend Consolidation & 10x+ Cost Reduction
Challenge: Reduce significant operational expenditure and complexity stemming from a fragmented backend (PHP & Ruby on Rails).
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Planned and executed a seamless migration of all backend logic into a unified, efficient Laravel application.
- Engineered the new backend as a drop-in replacement, minimizing disruption to existing services.
- Focused on infrastructure optimization and efficient coding practices in the new platform.
Key Impact: Successfully consolidated the backend, dramatically cutting monthly operational costs from 4-figures to ~$150/month while simplifying maintenance.
Real Estate Website Rescue, Modernization & AI Translation
Challenge: Stabilize, modernize, and enhance a problematic Laravel-based real estate website suffering from performance issues, outdated dependencies (Laravel 5.x/PHP 7.4), unreliable Salesforce sync, poor multilingual support, and legacy infrastructure.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Rescued the project by identifying and fixing core performance bottlenecks and refactoring critical code.
- Executed a significant platform upgrade, migrating the application progressively from Laravel 5.x to Laravel 11 and updating the underlying PHP version from 7.4 to 8.3+.
- Managed dependency challenges during the upgrade, replacing outdated packages with modern, compatible alternatives.
- Improved and stabilized the bi-directional Salesforce integration for inventory and inquiries.
- Replaced a slow, ineffective external translation SaaS by building native Laravel multilingual capabilities (frontend/backend/dynamic content).
- Implemented an automated, AI-enhanced translation workflow using DeepL API for initial translation and Anthropic AI API for context-aware refinement and brand alignment.
- Modernized the infrastructure by migrating from a poor host to Hetzner/Laravel Forge, implementing auto-deployment (CI/CD) and proper staging.
Key Impact: Transformed an unstable, outdated website into a performant, secure, and modern platform with advanced AI-driven multilingual capabilities, running on the latest framework versions with efficient DevOps practices.
LMS Reporting & Certification Platform
Challenge: Add serious reporting and certification workflows to a large Laravel LMS without flattening years of existing business logic.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Built a flexible custom reporting system with filters, configurable columns, exports, and background processing.
- Worked on LMS flows for learners, courses, progress, portals, certificates, and customer-specific requirements.
- Handled features where product behavior, reporting accuracy, and business rules had to line up precisely.
- Turned customer conversations into technical requirements the team could build and maintain.
- Worked inside a mature SaaS codebase instead of treating the project like a clean-room rewrite.
Key Impact: The LMS gained reporting and certification features that fit the existing product instead of sitting beside it as a fragile add-on.
Event Platform with AI Matching & QR Ticketing
Challenge: Build an event platform for registration, exhibitors, visitor planning, AI matching, QR tickets, and admin work.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Built visitor flows for registration, personal planning, workshop participation, and admission.
- Built AI-assisted exhibitor matching to help visitors find relevant companies and sessions.
- Implemented QR ticketing, scanning, event stats, and admin tools.
- Integrated event data from an existing WordPress setup while keeping the Laravel application clean.
- Worked across the full product surface: backend, frontend, admin screens, integrations, and production details.
Key Impact: A full event platform where visitors can plan their day, find relevant exhibitors, and enter with QR tickets, while admins keep control of the event.
Industrial Product Configurator
Challenge: Take over a messy legacy product configurator where every change affects compatibility, pricing, exports, and production-ready output.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Picked up a hard-to-understand Laravel/Vue configurator for technical products with many variants, rules, and dependencies.
- Extended configuration logic around components, compatibility, pricing, accessories, and product lines.
- Improved export workflows for sales, planning, and technical documentation.
- Cleaned up admin and data-management flows so product logic became easier to manage.
- Added new features to a legacy business application without breaking existing configuration behavior.
Key Impact: A fragile legacy configurator became easier to extend while still supporting the product knowledge sales, planning, and technical teams depended on.
European Car Dropshipping Marketplace (B2C & B2B)
Challenge: Build a comprehensive platform to aggregate car inventory from European dealerships, enrich the data, sell to both consumers (B2C) and dealers (B2B), and manage the dropshipping fulfillment.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Developed automated ingestion systems to pull and normalize car inventory from diverse European dealership sources.
- Integrated manufacturer data feeds to enrich listings with accurate equipment details, model info, and images.
- Built the customer-facing B2C marketplace frontend for browsing and purchasing cars online.
- Implemented inventory synchronization to push listings to external generic car marketplaces.
- Created an automated workflow for online purchase, coordinating registration and delivery via service partners.
- Developed a separate B2B platform for European dealerships to directly purchase inventory.
Key Impact: Delivered an end-to-end dropshipping solution for the European car market, automating complex data handling, sales processes, and logistics for both B2C and B2B segments.
Interactive Financial Screener (20k+ Funds)
Challenge: Develop a fast, interactive, and SEO-friendly web application for screening a large dataset of financial instruments (20k+ funds/ETFs).
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Built a dynamic Vue.js frontend powered by Laravel and MeiliSearch for instant, faceted search with typo tolerance.
- Engineered a generation process for SEO-optimized static landing pages for each individual fund, boosting organic visibility.
- Integrated Statamic CMS for seamless management of blog/content alongside the application data.
Key Impact: Delivered a high-performance financial data exploration tool with excellent UX, strong SEO capabilities, and integrated content marketing.
Travel Content Platform Performance & SEO Tooling
Challenge: Improve a content-heavy travel site where speed, SEO, images, video, internal links, and editorial work all affected revenue.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Reduced unnecessary scripts, improved image handling, and deferred heavy third-party assets.
- Reworked media loading for visual pages without damaging the design or editorial experience.
- Built internal-linking and content tooling to make a large content archive easier to maintain and grow.
- Improved the code behind search visibility, content discovery, and page speed.
- Worked inside an existing CMS setup instead of forcing a full rebuild.
Key Impact: A large travel/content platform became faster, cleaner, and easier to grow through search.
Conversion-Optimized Reverse Lookup SaaS
Challenge: Launch a new SaaS product for reverse lookups (phone, name, address) focused on maximizing user signups and minimizing friction.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Designed and implemented a unique "try-before-you-buy" signup flow allowing initial searches pre-registration, boosting engagement.
- Engineered a streamlined, low-friction registration and Stripe subscription process.
- Built comprehensive self-service features (plan/payment management) to empower users and reduce support load.
- Integrated targeted in-app prompts and tools to guide users towards conversion.
Key Impact: Launched a user-centric platform with an optimized funnel for higher conversion rates and smoother onboarding.
Legacy SaaS Stabilization & Knowledge Capture
Challenge: Stabilize and enhance a business-critical, decade-old SaaS platform built on an undocumented, complex custom PHP framework, hindering progress and increasing risk.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Rapidly assimilated the complex legacy codebase to address urgent bug fixes and implement critical client-requested features.
- Undertook the crucial task of reverse-engineering and meticulously documenting the entire application, creating a vital knowledge base.
- Established a Dockerized development environment, standardizing the setup and improving developer workflow.
Key Impact: Rescued a vital legacy system, reduced technical debt significantly through documentation, enabled future development, and modernized workflows.
Feature-Rich Domain Generator WP Plugin
Challenge: Create a versatile, theme-compatible WordPress plugin for domain name generation and availability checking, including robust anti-bot features.
My Solution & Key Contributions:
- Developed a custom plugin offering multiple name generation strategies (keyword, phonetic, etc.).
- Included configurable TLD checking options.
- Ensured a modern, responsive UI (Bootstrap 5) designed for broad theme compatibility.
- Implemented effective anti-bot mechanisms to protect resources and ensure reliability.
Key Impact: Provided a valuable, secure, and flexible tool for domain searching within the WordPress ecosystem.