Bashar Bkaya

Software Engineer

I design and build scalable backend systems, production-ready APIs, and cloud-ready applications with a strong focus on software architecture, performance, security, and reliability.

My work spans Laravel and PHP backend development, RESTful APIs, databases, caching, containerization, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD, with an emphasis on writing maintainable systems that can evolve as requirements and traffic grow.

Core Technologies

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • CI/CD

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About Me

I'm a Backend Developer who builds systems that stay fast, secure, and maintainable long after launch. I care about correctness and performance not just code that works today, but systems that hold up under real traffic.

Over the past 4+ years, I’ve built and shipped production-ready applications across multiple domains, including real estate, school management, invoicing and billing, gym management, driving schools, gold trading, and business management platforms such as Bakkaya Group. I’ve owned features end to end, from architecture, database design, authentication, and authorization to REST APIs, caching, third-party integrations, background jobs, and deployment. My experience spans the full backend lifecycle, with a strong focus on building maintainable, scalable, and reliable systems that solve real business problems.

I'm as comfortable reading legacy code as I am architecting new services. My daily work is guided by clean code, SOLID principles, design patterns, and I bring it all together with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD so teams can ship confidently.

Experience
4+ years backend development
Specialties
Scalable APIs, systems & cloud
Availability
Open to full-time & freelance

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Technical Skills

Backend & APIs

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Eloquent ORM
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • API Versioning
  • Microservices
  • WebSockets
  • Webhooks
  • Message Queues
  • RabbitMQ
  • Authentication
  • JWT
  • OAuth2
  • Authorization
  • Database Administration
  • Secure Data Management

Databases & Data

  • SQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Caching
  • Schema Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Indexing
  • Query Optimization
  • Database Replication

Testing & Quality

  • PHPUnit
  • Integration Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Mocking
  • API Testing
  • Load Testing
  • Code Coverage

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Ansible
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • Bash
  • Load Balancing
  • Serverless
  • System Scaling

Observability & Monitoring

  • Logging
  • Distributed Tracing
  • Alerting
  • Performance Monitoring

Engineering Practices

  • Clean Code
  • SOLID
  • Design Patterns
  • System Design
  • Code Refactoring
  • Secure Coding
  • Code Reviews
  • Git Flow
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Architecture Patterns

Tools & Platforms

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Jira
  • Postman
  • Swagger
  • OpenAPI

Networking

  • CCNA
  • CCNP
  • Network+
  • A+
  • DNS
  • Firewalls
  • Load Balancers

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Professional Experience

Backend Developer — NEXLEAD

Jan 2025 – Sep 2025

  • Contributed to Golden Tag, a mobile app for managing jewelry stores and day-to-day operations.
  • Built inventory tracking, employee management, and item sales logging workflows.
  • Implemented barcode scanning, USD/SYP rate handling, screenshot sharing, and TXT file generation features.
  • Developed APIs and integrated the backend with external systems used by the business.

Backend Developer — iCAN

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024

  • Collaborated with a 5-developer team on application features end to end.
  • Designed and implemented new features using Laravel and PHP.
  • Participated in code reviews and enforced code quality standards.
  • Refactored existing code and improved application efficiency.
  • Integrated third-party tools and services.
  • Worked with security and software-quality practices across the codebase.

Freelance Full Stack Developer

Feb 2023 – Jul 2024

  • Built a real estate platform with secure authentication and admin control panel.
  • Designed backend architecture with secure data management and RBAC.
  • Delivered end-to-end features from database design to deployment.
  • Applied secure coding practices across API and admin surfaces.

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Featured Projects

Production-minded, real projects — every one solves a concrete business problem. Public ones link to their repositories; private ones are available on request.

Laravel 11 · MySQL · Tailwind

Bakaya Group

A Laravel platform that helps local businesses showcase their products online — with category browsing, WhatsApp ordering, SEO-friendly pages, and a production-grade image pipeline.

Engineering highlights
  • Product listing with category filtering.
  • WhatsApp contact integration for direct ordering.
  • SEO-friendly pages and WebP-first delivery via <picture>.
  • Model-observer image pipeline: private original, optimized JPEG, and WebP output.
Laravel · Filament · Domain-Driven

Sports Club / Facility Management

An operations platform for sports clubs and fitness facilities: memberships, plans, scheduling, tasks, diets, and a product store with role-based dashboards.

Engineering highlights
  • Domain-driven modules: club, plans, tasks, and operations.
  • Membership plans, subscriptions, discounts, and automated renewals.
  • Role dashboards for admin, coach, and player.
  • Scheduling, diet plans, chat, wallets, and a health-product store.
Jeweler's shop management screenshot
Laravel 11 · Filament · Sanctum API

Jeweler's Shop Management System

The backend that automates a jeweler's shop selling gold and diamonds — products, live gold prices, subscriptions, news, and payments, with a full Filament admin panel.

Engineering highlights
  • Gold price and currency management with admin control.
  • Products, diamonds, subscriptions, and news with media handling.
  • Sanctum-powered API with FCM push notifications for the mobile app.
  • Filament admin panel and query-builder powered filtering.
Laravel 12 · Sanctum · MySQL

Real Estate Platform — REST API

A Laravel REST API for a luxury real-estate platform: property listings with media, service requests, and payment processing.

Engineering highlights
  • Sanctum token auth with admin/user roles and ownership policies.
  • Spatie Media Library with automatic thumbnail conversion.
  • 11 query-parameter filters, server-side pagination capped at 100 items.
  • Rate limiting, N+1 prevention, FormRequest validation, API resources.
  • 22 feature tests / 53 assertions; OpenAPI 3.1 docs + Swagger UI.
Laravel 9 · MySQL · Livewire

School Management System

A bilingual K-12 administration platform unifying students, teachers, parents, fees, attendance, exams, library, and online classes in one system.

Engineering highlights
  • Four isolated auth guards with per-role dashboards (admin, teacher, student, parent).
  • Fee invoicing, receipts, and student account ledger.
  • Daily attendance, quizzes with question bank, and library management.
  • Zoom integration for scheduled online classes.
  • Repository pattern, AR/EN localization with RTL/LTR, AJAX-based data fetching.
Laravel · MySQL · DomPDF

Quick Bill

A bilingual invoice management app with dynamic product rows, automatic financial calculations, and PDF/Excel export.

Engineering highlights
  • Secure invoice management with sensitive-data protection.
  • Automatic calculations: subtotal, discount, VAT, shipping, total due.
  • PDF export and email delivery of invoices.
  • Excel export and browser print support.
  • Multi-language support with full RTL layout.
Laravel 10 · Filament · DDD · Stripe

Driving School Management Platform

A modular, domain-driven platform for driving schools — managing schools, courses, trainers, students, plans & subscriptions, scheduling, and payments in one system.

Engineering highlights
  • Domain-driven modular codebase (Course, School, Operation domains).
  • Multi-role dashboards: admin, manager, trainer, and student.
  • School, plan & subscription management with Stripe payment gateways.
  • Course scheduling, rate modules, and FCM push notifications.
Laravel · Domain-Driven · Sanctum API

E-Commerce Marketplace

A domain-driven marketplace where providers run their own stores — products, offers, wishlists, ratings, carts, orders, payments, and location-based delivery.

Engineering highlights
  • Multi-role system: admin, provider, and customer.
  • Store management with products, categories, offers, and ads.
  • Wishlists, ratings & feedback, carts, orders, and payments.
  • Addresses, cities & regions for delivery routing.
  • Domain-driven structure (Products, Stores, Operations, Locations).
Laravel · JWT + Sanctum · RBAC · Pusher

Real Estate Platform

A mobile-first real estate platform where sellers publish villas, houses, and lands for sale — geo-tagged by area, with rich property details, pricing by listing type, favorites, reviews, and an RBAC-protected admin dashboard.

Engineering highlights
  • Property listings geo-tagged with lat/long and a country → city → area hierarchy.
  • Listing types (e.g. villa / house / land) with price & start/end dates via pivots.
  • Dynamic property attributes per category (custom information fields).
  • Property photos, availability, favorites, reviews & comments.
  • JWT + Sanctum auth with OTP email verification and signed password-reset URLs.
  • RBAC admin API and Pusher real-time notifications.

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Engineering Expertise

Beyond writing code — the practices I apply to build systems that are secure, performant, and maintainable.

API Architecture & Design

REST & GraphQL APIs with versioning, idempotency, caching strategies, pagination, rate limiting, and OpenAPI contracts for reliable client integration.

Auth & Authorization

Sanctum & JWT authentication, OAuth2 integrations, multi-guard auth, RBAC & policies, middleware enforcement, and session security hardening.

Secure Data Management

OWASP-aligned practices, input validation, encryption at rest and in transit, environment-based configuration, audit logging, and zero secrets in code.

Database Design & Performance

Normalized schemas, indexing strategy, query optimization, eager loading to eliminate N+1, Redis caching for hot paths, and replication for read scaling.

Architecture & Refactoring

SOLID, design patterns, layered and hexagonal architecture, microservices with event-driven design, and disciplined refactoring of legacy systems.

Cloud, Containers & CI/CD

Containerized workflows with Docker & Kubernetes, infrastructure as code with Terraform, automated pipelines with GitHub Actions, and observability with Prometheus & Grafana.

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Education & Certifications

B.Sc. Informatics Engineering

University of Aleppo — Faculty of Informatics Engineering

  • GPA: 85%
  • Graduation project mark: 99%

M.Sc. Informatics Engineering

Samsun University

  • Currently pursuing

Networking Certifications

Cisco & CompTIA

  • CCNA
  • CCNP
  • Network+
  • A+

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Get In Touch

Recruiting for a backend role, or need backend help on a project? Let's talk.

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