Resume

March 2024 - Present

DirectDeals/U2Connect

Integrated AI-assisted development workflows into daily engineering practice, leveraging coding copilots, prompt-driven debugging, test generation, refactoring assistance, and architectural exploration to accelerate iteration, improve code quality, and reduce turnaround time on complex systems.
Designed and implemented scalable multi-tenant SaaS architectures using Laravel, focusing on domain-driven design, secure authentication flows, JWT lifecycle management, encrypted session handling, and centralized audit logging to support long-term maintainability and operational transparency.
Delivered internal and customer-facing administrative platforms. These included Firebase-integrated mobile user management dashboards and operational tooling for multi-tenant SaaS systems, supporting business operations, user lifecycle management, and data visibility.
Developed automated testing and delivery workflows for containerized applications using Docker and CI/CD pipelines, improving release reliability, reducing manual deployment effort, and ensuring consistent behavior across all environments.
Built reusable platform components and shared services including authentication modules, external fraud prevention integrations, and extensible CMS infrastructure deployed across 10+ production client implementations, accelerating delivery while maintaining strong security and quality standards.

Oct 2022 - February 2024

Contractor

Delivered a fully multilingual custom CMS using Laravel and Livewire, improving content management efficiency and enhancing the user experience for international audiences—reducing admin time by over 30%.
Streamlined financial operations by customizing and optimizing invoice templates, enabling faster invoicing cycles and reducing client-side manual adjustments and errors.
Increased conversion rates and reduced cart abandonment by maintaining and optimizing multiple e-commerce websites, addressing performance bottlenecks and enhancing mobile responsiveness.
Boosted platform stability by diagnosing and resolving high-priority bugs in a ticketing system, reducing support tickets and ensuring uninterrupted service for end-users.

Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Ideal Image

Improved system scalability and deployment efficiency by architecting RESTful APIs and Dockerized background workers within a microservices environment—reducing deployment errors and boosting development-to-production consistency.
Accelerated product delivery by integrating React and Laravel into a cohesive stack, enabling a full-featured web application to launch ahead of schedule and under budget, while increasing team development velocity.
Engineered and maintained robust APIs with Laravel, ensuring seamless integration with third-party services and internal tools—supporting thousands of transactions daily with high reliability.
Significantly enhanced database performance by optimizing SQL queries and restructuring schema, resulting in faster data access and more responsive API endpoints across the application.

Aug 2020 - Oct 2021

NIA Auto Design

Improved the maintainability and scalability of a Laravel web application by refactoring the codebase and implementing modern software design patterns, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced technical debt
Automated and optimized business logic for core E-commerce operations in areas such as customer operations, producing invoices, checking and modifying store inventory
Managed E-commerce projects, implementing payment gateways and shopping cart functionality
Server automation/backups with Python/Bash automation scripts, applied security patches on a regular basis
Deployed web applications on Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and security

June 2018 - July 2020

C&I Studios

Designed and developed custom web applications using PHP/Laravel/Wordpress, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, ensuring high performance and scalability
Development of custom CMS Laravel applications for internal admin store operations
Automated an event registering system by rewriting the application with modern full-stack features and reduced the number of manual data input entries and processing that needed to be done under the old system
Website and database optimization techniques which improved load times for data intensive pages and API endpoints
Built internal registration software, automated registration processes and created administrative tools

Feb 2015 - June 2018

Pop Creative Group

Developed several custom full stack web applications using Wordpress, Laravel, and integrating with various API services such as YouTube API, Stripe, Authorize.net
Refactored code, identified and replaced legacy code with modern Object Oriented techniques
Managed project timelines and budgets, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of high-quality web applications that meet client requirements and exceed expectations
Custom Magento web development, migration to Magento v2
Developed and maintained documentation for existing and new web applications, improving code base readability and facilitating team collaboration

January 2012 - Feb 2015

Cause Populi

Developed and maintained several E-commerce websites based on WooCommerce and Magento
Debugged and resolved complex technical issues in web applications, ensuring high up time
Ticket support for client requests with server migrations
Management of websites, DNS configuration and troubleshooting
Worked with legacy PHP code bases to update and maintain existing web applications

Juan Cadima