Achilles
From Greece (UTC+3)
Achilles – PHP, Laravel, Vue.js
Senior full-stack engineer with over two decades of experience delivering SaaS products and business applications using Laravel, Vue.js, and MySQL. Achilles has deep hands-on ownership experience, having led a B2B SaaS platform for nearly nine years across architecture, development, infrastructure, and production support. He combines strong PHP/Laravel and database knowledge with practical Vue.js skills and a product-first mindset.
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Full-stack Web Developer
An open-source Laravel package (MIT) that generates a complete CRUD interface for an Eloquent model from a single controller trait plus publishable Blade views. It needs no code generators and no SPA layer.
- Designed and built the package: index listing and create/show/edit forms with validation and soft-delete support, themeable for Bootstrap or Tailwind.
- Maintained compatibility with every Laravel version since 5.5, updating it as new versions are released (current: Laravel 11–13 on PHP 8.2+).
- Set up a PHPUnit test suite (Orchestra Testbench) running in GitHub Actions CI across PHP 8.2–8.4 and Laravel 11–13.
- Published releases on Packagist.
Full-stack Web Developer
In-house web platforms for a national public-sector organization with regional units across the country.
- Owned the design, development, deployment, and long-term maintenance of web applications for institutional data management and operational workflows.
- Performed requirements analysis, implemented business logic, designed databases, and managed Linux and Docker-based deployment and server operations.
- Architected and built a Laravel platform that consolidated approximately 10 independent business applications—including asset registries, HR and staffing, professional registries, directories, and public-data publishing—into one shared system.
- Migrated existing, in-use applications one domain at a time, enabling staff to continue working without interruption during the transition.
- Built an end-to-end recruitment and selection system for fixed-term staff, including a citizen-facing application portal built with Vue 3 and Inertia, government single sign-on via OAuth2, and a Laravel/Vue back-office engine for validation, scoring, ranking, and position assignment.
- Managed deployment and operations on Linux and Docker, including internal staff authentication through LDAP.
- Built a financial data-management web application used across more than 100 prefectures and regional units.
Tech Lead & Full-stack Web Developer
A B2B sales-outreach SaaS that lets teams and agencies run personalized, multi-step email campaigns from their own connected mailboxes, with scheduling and deliverability tooling, lead generation tools, and a public API with webhooks.
- Built the platform from the ground up as the sole developer, then led a small team as technical lead for nearly nine years, owning architecture, database design, backend and frontend development, DevOps, and production operations.
- Designed a multi-tenant, agency white-label architecture supporting direct team accounts and agencies with custom domains, automatic SSL, branding, managed clients and users, and Stripe subscription billing for both models within one codebase.
- Built a campaign automation engine using Laravel Horizon and Redis to deliver personalized multi-step email sequences based on customer schedules, daily limits, A/B-tested templates, randomized sending intervals, and reply and bounce handling.
- Implemented Kubernetes worker autoscaling and failure handling to support reliable execution of automation workloads.
- Built and maintained a documented public REST API with tenant-scoped authentication and rate limits, along with outgoing webhooks for customer integrations.
- Integrated Stripe, Zapier, Nylas, LLM APIs, and other external services into the platform.
- Built an in-house contact-discovery and email-verification engine with a self-hosted SMTP verification layer, replacing costly third-party data APIs.
- Owned production operations by containerizing the application, migrating it from DigitalOcean to Kubernetes on Google Cloud, and implementing zero-downtime Cloud Build deployments to staging and production.
Full-stack Web Developer
Websites, blogs, and WooCommerce catalogs for small businesses and individuals, delivered part-time, including ongoing maintenance for long-term clients.
- Delivered small-business websites and web features end-to-end, working directly with clients.
- Customized WordPress themes and plugins using PHP and implemented front-end adjustments with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Built a WordPress auto-news blog and migrated the author’s existing content from an earlier blog.
- Maintained the blog since launch as it grew into a large, daily-updated content archive.
- Built WooCommerce product catalogs, including an e-book catalog with book and author pages and a product catalog with category and size filters for a mattress and bed manufacturer.
Software Engineer & Database Administrator
A mobile value-added services provider (messaging and interactive voice services).
- Designed and maintained the company’s MS SQL Server database systems.
- Developed client-server applications using Visual Basic and Microsoft-based technologies.
- Built connectivity and messaging applications for mobile value-added services.
- Developed interactive voice response (IVR) workflows using a proprietary IVR programming language.