Senior software engineer · backend architect # Jewei Mak Senior backend engineer. Laravel specialist. Scale-tested. [Download PDF](/content/files/2026/09/jewei-mak-resume-2026.pdf) · [Email Jewei](mailto:jewei@duck.com) - **Experience:** 15+ years - **Systems served:** 1M+ users - **Payment providers:** 10+ - **Primary stack:** Laravel · PHP ## Profile 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. ## 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 ## Technology 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 ## Experience ### Senior Software Engineer [Oneverse](https://oneone.com/?ref=jewei.net) 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 campaign 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](https://frogasia.com/?ref=jewei.net) 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](https://modefair.com/?ref=jewei.net) 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](https://www.pslgroup.com/?ref=jewei.net) 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](https://stackideas.com/?ref=jewei.net) 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 ## Contact I am open to senior backend roles, consulting, and focused product engineering work. 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