Selected work

Real systems, shipped with care

Product-grade engineering: clear architecture, honest trade-offs, and outcomes you can measure — not demo-only polish.

SaaS

Celebrate It With Me — Event Platform

A modular event platform designed to manage guest experiences end-to-end — from invitations and RSVP flows to interactive features like music suggestions and event timelines.

Technical highlight

Built with a scalable, module-based architecture, enabling dynamic features such as RSVP workflows, guest management, and real-time interactions.

Impact

Designed to support customizable event experiences while maintaining performance, flexibility, and clean separation of concerns.

  • Modular architecture
  • Dynamic RSVP flows
  • Real-time interactions
  • API-driven design
Trading & analytics

OptionEdge — Trading Analysis Platform

A trading analysis platform designed to detect high-probability setups using technical indicators, feature engineering, and rule-based evaluation.

Technical highlight

Built with a custom analytics engine that processes market data into indicators, features, and scored setups across multiple timeframes.

Impact

Transforms raw market data into structured insights for more consistent, data-driven decision-making.

  • Indicator engine
  • Feature engineering
  • Multi-timeframe analysis
  • Rule-based scoring

Engineering focus

Templates & UX craft

High-fidelity event templates — mobile-first, accessible patterns.

Automation & AI

Workflow automation and AI-assisted tooling for product teams.

Cloud & observability

Logs, metrics, tracing, and deploy pipelines that hold up in production.

Engineering Principles

01 Architecture First

API-driven design, clean service boundaries, and modular Laravel structures that scale.

02 Performance Mindset

Measure first, optimize second. Frontend performance and backend resiliency are non-negotiable.

03 Product-Oriented

I build with users in mind—balancing technical excellence with business impact.

04 Long-Term Maintainability

Readable code, strong validation layers, and systems designed for future teams.

Experience

Production systems, measurable outcomes

Not a job listing—evidence of shipping, hardening, and improving software under real constraints: performance, integrations, and operational scale.

Feb 2025 – Jan 2026

TBO Bank

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

White-label digital banking platform—modernizing customer-facing portals and operational workflows for production scale.

Contributions

  • Led full modernization of the customer portal into a production-grade Vue 3 + Vite stack used under real traffic.
  • Integrated high-volume loan lifecycle flows and operational ticketing end-to-end across services and UI.
  • Strengthened Laravel services with stronger validation, fault handling, and operational resilience.

Impact

  • Cut portal load times by roughly ~35% after the rebuild.
  • Shipped production features across core banking modules with measurable UX and ops wins.
  • Laravel
  • Vue 3
  • Vite
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Tailwind

Sep 2021 – Feb 2025

Hyphen

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Product-led lending technology—performance, multi-brand delivery, and services that scale with the business.

Contributions

  • Led development of core product features in Laravel and Vue—APIs and interfaces relied on daily in production.
  • Designed and optimized backend services and integrations supporting multi-brand white-label deployments.
  • Migrated 40+ modules from Vue 2 to Vue 3 + Vite, improving build speed, DX, and end-user performance.

Impact

  • Replaced legacy SOAP partner integrations with clean REST APIs , reducing onboarding complexity and long-term maintenance.
  • Delivered production-ready capabilities across lending modules with clear ownership from schema to UI.
  • Laravel
  • Vue
  • AWS
  • MySQL
  • Tailwind

Jun 2016 – Sep 2021

KAR Global (High Tech Locksmith)

Senior PHP / Full-Stack Engineer

E-commerce and field-service operations—real-time dispatch, mobile touchpoints, and mission-critical reliability.

Contributions

  • Built and maintained commerce and service APIs on Laravel powering warehouse, field, and partner workflows.
  • Implemented real-time dispatch and presence using Node.js, Socket.io, and Redis pub/sub alongside operational UIs.
  • Improved reliability and throughput with AWS Lambda services, disciplined caching, and tuned MySQL workloads.

Impact

  • Proprietary CRM and dispatch stack in daily field use , connecting Android apps, OAuth2 APIs, and Firebase messaging.
  • Raised backend throughput and reduced infra cost through focused service decomposition and observability.
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • AWS

2008 – 2013

Freelance / Cuba

Full-Stack Developer

Custom applications across multiple domains—end-to-end delivery with production expectations.

Contributions

  • Built and shipped web applications using Symfony and Laravel—from routing and auth to deployment.
  • Designed relational schemas and backend architecture for maintainability and reporting needs.
  • Delivered full-stack solutions spanning APIs, admin tools, and customer-facing surfaces.

Impact

  • Repeatedly took products from requirements to stable production across heterogeneous client environments.
  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript
  • PHP

2013 – 2015

University of Medical Sciences

Web & Database Engineer

Academic environment—internal systems, sensitive data, and long-term maintainability.

Contributions

  • Secured internal web applications and hardened authentication and session handling.
  • Designed and optimized databases supporting internal reporting and operational workflows.
  • Maintained internal platforms through iterative releases with minimal downtime for staff.

Impact

  • Improved trustworthiness and stability of internal tools used by faculty and administration.
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Security hardening

Skills

A clear capability map

Structured strengths across the stack — how systems are designed, built, shipped, and kept reliable.

Backend & Architecture

Designing scalable backend systems with clean architecture, modular design, and long-term maintainability.

  • Laravel · PHP
  • API Design (REST)
  • Modular Systems
  • Event-driven design
  • DDD principles
  • Microservices

Frontend Systems

Building modern, high-performance interfaces with strong component architecture and maintainable UI systems.

  • Vue 3 · Vite · Pinia
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Component Architecture
  • Responsive UI
  • Frontend Performance
  • Testing (Vitest)

Data & Infrastructure

Managing data layers, integrations, and cloud services to support reliable, production-grade systems.

  • MySQL · PostgreSQL
  • AWS (S3 · SES · SQS)
  • Docker
  • Queues & background jobs
  • CI/CD
  • System integrations

Engineering & AI Workflows

Applying structured engineering practices and AI-assisted workflows to improve speed, quality, and system reliability.

  • Clean Architecture
  • Testing & Debugging
  • Performance Optimization
  • Code Reviews
  • AI-assisted development
  • Spec-driven workflows

Contact

Let’s build something that holds up in production

Roles, contracts, or technical collaboration — I read messages promptly and keep follow-ups concrete.

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