Achilles – PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, experts in Lemon.io

Achilles

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Full-stack Web Developer|Senior

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.

27 years of commercial experience in
Govtech
Marketing
Media
Public services
Publishing
Sales
Telecommunications
B2B
Open source
White label
Dev tools
SaaS
Web development
Main technologies
PHP
10 years
Laravel
10 years
Vue.js
10 years
Additional skills
MySQL
OAuth
REST API
Database design
Workflow Automation
Stripe API
JavaScript
GCP
Kubernetes
Docker
Inertia.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Microsoft SQL Server
jQuery
Webhooks
Responsive Web Design
Tailwind CSS
LLM integration
AI-assisted coding
Linux
HTML
CSS
Cloud Architecture
Git
Redis
LLM
Typescript
Docker Swarm
Visual Basic (VB)
WordPress
PHPUnit
GitHub Actions
Blade
Eloquent
SQL
OpenAI API
AI API integration
DigitalOcean
ElasticSearch
Claude Code
Direct hire
Possible
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Experience Highlights

Full-stack Web Developer
Oct 2017 - Ongoing8 years 11 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
PHP
Laravel
Eloquent
Blade
PHPUnit
GitHub Actions
Tailwind CSS
Full-stack Web Developer
Feb 2007 - Ongoing19 years 7 months
Project Overview

In-house web platforms for a national public-sector organization with regional units across the country.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Laravel
PHP
Vue.js
Typescript
MySQL
Docker
Inertia.js
HTML
CSS
Tailwind CSS
Docker Swarm
Database design
JavaScript
jQuery
Responsive Web Design
Tech Lead & Full-stack Web Developer
Oct 2017 - Apr 20268 years 5 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
GCP
Kubernetes
Laravel
Vue.js
MySQL
Redis
Docker
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
Database design
Cloud Architecture
DevOps
Responsive Web Design
Full-stack Web Developer
Dec 2009 - Nov 202010 years 10 months
Project Overview

Websites, blogs, and WooCommerce catalogs for small businesses and individuals, delivered part-time, including ongoing maintenance for long-term clients.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
PHP
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Responsive Web Design
WordPress
jQuery
Software Engineer & Database Administrator
Jul 2002 - Oct 20053 years 3 months
Project Overview

A mobile value-added services provider (messaging and interactive voice services).

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Microsoft SQL Server
Visual Basic (VB)
SQL

Education

1999
Computer Science (Electronic Computing Systems)
Bachelor's degree (Information Systems Engineer)
2020
Information Society, New Media and Technology
Master's degree (MA)

Languages

Greek
Advanced
French
Pre-intermediate
Spanish
Pre-intermediate
English
Advanced

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