PHP Laravel Developer

• An accomplished, quality-driven IT professional with over 18 years of experience in web development
and implementation of business rules.
• Extensive experience in building CMS Solutions (PHP development on WordPress and Drupal) .
• Participated in a supporting role in editing WordPress themes including block editing.
• Creating WordPress plugins from scratch and upgraded outdated in house developed plugins.
• Creating must-use WordPress plugins like Push Button Deployment and DB backup.
• Created REST API projects from scratch on WordPress and core PHP platforms.
• Supporting role in front-end designing using React.JS (Next.JS framework) .
• Extensive experience in PHP based web development, troubleshooting and debugging.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, Initiative and Adaptable. Self-motivated, organized team player with
strong problem solving and analytical skills and total commitment to the organization goals.
• Maintenance and monitoring performance of projects on PHP MySQL, Laravel and WordPress.
• Bug fixing, ensuring website performance and monitoring for unforeseen issues.
• Verifying Apache, Nginx, Laravel and WordPress level security and detecting loopholes.
• Creating PHP MySQL web application projects from scratch (without any CMS and framework) .
• Upgrading WordPress, Laravel, Drupal projects whenever a new version is proposed.
• Review user feedback and do pre-upgrade checks to avoid rolling back after upgrading.
• Ownership of a few projects as a technical lead which was written using Laravel and React JS.
• Assisting frontend dev team, PM and client's who seek assistance in WP related issues.
• AWS-CLI environment setup using EC2 , ELB, RDS, Elasticache, Route53 , S3 , CloudFront, etc.
• Managed CMS projects using command line management tools WP-CLI and Drush.
• Puppet and Hiera (configuration management) handling / modification.
• Detecting error and troubleshooting when a site is either down or unstable.
• Suggest possible solutions to overcome any Drupal and WordPress related issue.
• Manage Git repos to handle client'supplied contents and theme version changes.
• Migrating Drupal 7.x and WordPress 4.x sites to Laravel framework.
• Migrating from AWS (Amazon Web Services to Rackspace hosting) .
• Occasionally :
➢ Updating Apache and Nginx configuration.
➢ Troubleshooting PHP-FPM (mostly by modifying php.ini)
➢ AWS management using AWS CLI.
➢ Troubleshooting MySQL and SQL Server.
➢ WordPress best practices implementation.

  Dearborn, MI, USA