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Senior Software Engineer

Jewei Mak

Backend systems, APIs, and payments. Fifteen years of PHP and Laravel in production.

[email protected] · github.com/jewei · jewei.net

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    Oneverse

    2024 – Present

    • Developed and maintained a Laravel and PostgreSQL platform serving 1,000,000+ users and 50,000+ monthly transactions
    • Integrated 10+ payment providers and 70+ payment channels across Asia, expanding regional checkout coverage
    • Built fraud prevention against bot registrations and promotional campaign abuse using behavioral signals, rate limits, anomaly detection, and risk scoring
    • Co-architected 5 microservices, enabling 10x scalability while improving modularity and reliability
    • Defined Laravel architecture patterns, code-quality practices, and implementation guidance as Laravel subject-matter expert for the team
    • Applied agentic AI coding workflows to accelerate development, testing, debugging, and refactoring
    Stack
    Laravel, Filament, Livewire, PostgreSQL, Claude Code, Codex

  2. Senior Backend Software Engineer

    femmily

    2023 – 2024

    • 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
    • Introduced CI/CD and error tracking, increasing deploy frequency from weekly to daily while improving production visibility and incident response
    • Refactored and migrated 2 legacy Laravel applications into a more maintainable foundation
    • Established coding standards and streamlined Git workflows, including the repository migration from Bitbucket to GitHub
    Stack
    Laravel, MySQL, Livewire, Filament, PHPStan, Pest
    Tools
    GitHub, Forge, Flare, Bagisto, AWS

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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