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Jewei Mak

Senior backend engineer. Laravel specialist. Scale-tested.

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Summary

Senior Laravel/PHP engineer with 15+ years building and scaling backend systems, APIs, and payment integrations for products serving 1,000,000+ users across SaaS, edtech, and e-commerce.

Tech Stack

  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Filament
  • Livewire
  • Inertia.js
  • Vue.js
  • Alpine.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Redis
  • PHPUnit
  • Pest
  • PHPStan
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • OpenShift
  • RabbitMQ
  • Elasticsearch

Education

2005

Electronics Engineering

TARC, Malaysia

Core Strengths

  • Laravel/PHP architecture, API design, and database-backed web applications
  • Payment integrations, SaaS workflows, admin tooling, and internal platforms
  • Developer experience, code quality, documentation, automated testing, and static analysis
  • CI/CD, deployment workflows, observability, and production operations
  • Cloud and platform work across Cloudflare, AWS, OpenShift, Docker, and Linux servers
  • Technical mentoring, code review, engineering standards, and delivery planning
  • Agentic AI-assisted engineering workflows with harness agents

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Oneverse
2024 – Present
  • Engineered and maintained a Laravel/PostgreSQL platform serving 1,000,000+ users and processing 50,000+ monthly transactions
  • Integrated 10+ payment providers and 70+ payment channels across Asia, expanding regional checkout coverage
  • Elevated backend engineering standards by defining Laravel architecture patterns, code-quality practices, and implementation guidance as the team Laravel SME
  • Co-architected 5 microservices, enabling 10x scalability while improving modularity, reliability, and maintainability
  • Applied agentic AI coding workflows to accelerate development, testing, debugging, and refactoring
  • Built fraud prevention systems mitigating bot registrations and promotional campaigns abuse using behavioral signals, rate limits, anomaly detection, and risk scoring

Stack: Laravel, Filament, Livewire, PostgreSQL, Claude Code, Codex

Senior Backend Software Engineer

femmily
2023 – 2024
  • Refactored and migrated 2 legacy Laravel applications into a more maintainable foundation
  • Introduced CI/CD and error tracking, increasing deploy frequency from weekly to daily while improving production visibility and incident response
  • Established coding standards and streamlined Git workflows, including the repository migration from Bitbucket to GitHub
  • Drove a 3-month-delayed project to an on-time soft launch by standing up the AWS production environment, sharpening delivery focus, and mentoring the team

Stack: Laravel, MySQL, Livewire, Filament, PHPStan, Pest

Tools: GitHub, Forge, Flare, Bagisto, AWS

Senior Software Engineer

FrogAsia
2018 – 2023
  • Maintained backend APIs for a national learning platform serving 10,000+ Malaysian schools across web and mobile clients
  • Built and supported an online training platform used by 25+ large corporates, including YTL Construction and YTL Hotels
  • Delivered features across 7 learning products including Lesson Planner, Curriculum Designer, and an analytics dashboard
  • Partnered with architects and product owners to convert requirements into end-to-end architecture, technical tasks, and delivery estimates
  • Improved delivery quality by mentoring peer engineers, removing blockers, reviewing merge requests, and strengthening operational visibility through logging, metrics, health monitoring, Elasticsearch, and data lake pipelines

Stack: PHP, Laravel, React, MySQL, Firebase, RabbitMQ, Red Hat OpenShift Linux

Tools: GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, OpenShift, Docker, Figma, Vault, NiFi

Principal Software Engineer

ModeFair
2016 – 2018
  • Led backend architecture and API design for an e-commerce application covering campaign management, merchant onboarding, product listings, business reporting, and audit logs
  • Implemented zero-downtime deployment and rollback workflows, eliminating release-related downtime
  • Managed deployments across staging, production servers, and supporting cloud services
  • Built supporting microservices for image compression, PDF report generation, and social media data mining, cutting processing time by 80%
  • Established coding standards, design patterns, and backend guidelines across the team

Stack: Ubuntu, Nginx, PHP 7, AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudflare, Laravel, Redis

Tools: Deployer, Composer, Git, SSH, Slack, Let's Encrypt

Application Developer

P\S\L Group
2013 – 2016
  • Developed dynamic filtered newsfeed systems from aggregated data for pharmaceutical industry clients
  • Built an automated newsletter builder and email tracking system for targeted healthcare content delivery
  • Deployed micro-social sites with live newsfeeds and newsletter workflows

Stack: CentOS, Apache, PHP 5, MySQL, Drupal

Tools: Drush, G Suite, SVN, PHP_CodeSniffer, PHPUnit

Software Developer

Stackideas
2011 – 2013
  • Built product features for EasyBlog, EasyDiscuss, and Komento Joomla CMS extensions
  • Supported customers through forum and ticket workflows, translating product issues into fixes and improvements

Stack: Apache, PHP, Joomla, JavaScript, CSS

Software Engineer

Slashes and Dots

2009 – 2011
  • Built core product features for the JomSocial Joomla CMS extension
  • Implemented video uploads and a custom video player with Amazon S3 integration

Stack: Apache, PHP, Joomla

Interested in working together?

I'm open to senior backend roles, consulting, and interesting product engineering challenges. Let's build something reliable.

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