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"Fares has very strong skills in complex UI matters and gets along well with the team." - Christine Vaughan, LaReg Corp. ✅ "If you are looking for an amazing programmer, Fares is your guy." - Aaron Fox, Aaron Fox Law ✅ "Thank you for your collaboration." - Vincent Finetti, Prestige Vision Inc. ✅ ⭐ Here's what you should know about me! ⭐ I help businesses ship faster 🚀 with robust Laravel/Nuxt solutions that scale. I build polished, high-performance web applications while leveraging modern AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery without compromising quality. I'm experienced with agentic coding using Claude Code and Junie, enabling me to automate repetitive engineering tasks, navigate large codebases efficiently, and focus on solving complex business problems. I provide clear communication, predictable delivery, and results you can rely on. ⚙️ Technical skills • Backend: PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Nginx, Apache • Frontend: JavaScript (ES6), Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Vite.js, TailwindCSS, CSS, Sass, Webpack, Gulp • AI Development: Claude Code, Junie, Agentic Coding Workflows, AI-assisted Software Engineering, LLM-powered Development • Database: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL • APIs & Communication: REST, GraphQL, HTTP, WebSocket, SSH • Cloud & Hosting: AWS EC2, VPS, Shared Hosting, cPanel, Plesk • DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS CodeDeploy • Collaboration: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Agile, Slack ⚙️ Engineering skills ✅ AI-Augmented Engineering: Rapid prototyping, codebase refactoring, automated testing, documentation generation, intelligent debugging, and large-scale code navigation using AI coding agents ✅ Programming Paradigms: Object-Oriented (OOP), Functional, Procedural ✅ Software Design: SOLID, Clean Code, DRY, KISS, TDD, BDD ✅ Design Patterns: Creational, Structural, Behavioral ✅ Architecture: MVC, N-Layer, Microservices

I have 14+ years of experience in web development, mobile development application. I have done many works with PHP and Java for web application especially with different MVC framework like CakePHP, Grails, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, CodeIgniter, Zend, Symfony, Yii and different CMS like concrete5, moodle, modX. I am highly experienced in any MVC Framework even with different programming languages. I am also internationally certified on Java. I have done android game application and android home widget application in Java. I have experience with many programming language like Python especially Pylons and Django web application, Ruby especially Ruby on Rails web application, Java with Grails including script languages such as ajax, json, javascript, xml, rss, xslt and flex for active script language and with content management systems. I have been using sql server, mysql, oracle, mongodb and sqlite3 for database. I have participated on National and International project. I have masters on Software Engineering.

Senior Full Stack Software Developer with over 8 years of experience in the industry. I enjoy turning complex problems into simple, beautiful solutions. My expertise includes the following technologies: Backend: Vanilla JavaScript, Node.js, Nest.js, Express.js Core PHP, Laravel, Symfony GraphQL Frontend: React.js (Next.js), Vue.js, Livewire Bootstrap, Tailwind Databases: PostgreSQL, MySql, MongoDB, DynamoDB **I also specialize in database optimization and normalization—ensuring your data is stored efficiently and your applications run at peak performance. DevOps: Docker, Linux, LAMP stack, Nginx Lightsail, EC2, Lambda, SES, Cognito, S3 Cloud Providers: AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Heroku I'm eager to bring my mix of technical skills and problem-solving mindset to your project. Let's discuss how we can collaborate for mutual success. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Experienced Software Engineer with a strong focus on backend development, API integrations, and scalable eCommerce solutions. I specialize in custom eCommerce platforms, marketplace solutions (B2C & B2B), and middleware API development, ensuring robust performance and seamless system integrations. Technical Expertise: ✅ Backend Development: PHP (Laravel, Symfony) | Python (Django, FastAPI) | Node.js (ExpressJS, NestJS) ✅ Frontend Development: React.js | Next.js | Tailwind | shadcn UI | Materual UI | Bootstrap ✅ API Development: REST | GraphQL | RPC ✅ Database Management: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase ✅ DevOps & Infrastructure: AWS | Docker | CI/CD Pipelines | Git ✅ eCommerce & CMS Platforms: Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Headless CMS ✅ Software Architecture: SOLID Principles | Microservices | DDD | TDD Let’s connect to collaborate on innovative solutions in Startups, eCommerce, and digital transformation!

I build AI systems that hold up in production, and I've been an engineer for 18+ years, an engineering leader for most of the last decade. I co-founded a venture-backed SaaS platform, ran its engineering as VP for nine years, and helped raise over $20M. These days I work as a fractional CTO and hands-on AI engineer. I still write the code. Most of my recent work is AI agents and retrieval systems, specifically the parts that get hard once you leave the demo behind: holding latency and cost down, grounding answers in real data instead of letting the model guess, evaluating quality so you actually know when a change made things worse, and getting permissions right so the system never answers from a document the user was never allowed to see. Recent work I've built or architected: - A governed AI operating system for an enterprise retail and fashion brand, running entirely inside the client's own Google Cloud tenant. Sole delivery engineer: the full Terraform infrastructure (AlloyDB/pgvector, Cloud Run, IAM, Secret Manager, VPC Service Controls), a canonical data layer ingesting six external systems with PII masking at ingestion, a suite of Claude-powered agents behind a deterministic policy gate enforcing brand and commercial rules, a 50-case eval harness with per-run cost accounting, and a Next.js leadership app, all engineered for the client to own and operate after handover. - An AI-augmented delivery pipeline (spec-driven, agent-run against a ticket backlog) that shipped 200+ fixes and features in a single month with very little direct developer time. - Production AI agents with real cost management, not a prototype that quietly burns the budget. - A multi-agent, character-led knowledge assistant: distinct specialists, a routing layer, retrieval grounding, and guardrails, all behind one interface. - Enterprise RAG architecture: document-readiness assessment, hybrid retrieval and reranking, GraphRAG for relationship questions, adaptive routing, and evaluation gated in CI. Before AI ate my calendar I shipped plenty of other things: an LMS with SCORM, a website builder with a large user base, event booking, commerce, enterprise chat, TV apps, mobile games. EdTech and SaaS are home turf. Working with me, you get someone who'll architect the thing and then build it, who'll tell you when the simpler approach is the right one, and who measures whether the AI is working rather than trusting the vibes. Stack: TypeScript and JavaScript end to end. React, React Native, Next.js, Node, NestJS, Express, GraphQL, serverless. AWS (Solutions Architect certified) and GCP, Docker, EKS, Terraform. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB. Prisma, TypeORM, Apollo. Heavy on testing: Jest, RTL, Playwright, Cypress, full e2e suites. PMP on the delivery side. Open to fractional CTO, tech lead, and senior build engagements, large or small. Tell me what you're stuck on and I'll tell you straight whether and how I can help.

✅ Magento / Adobe Commerce Certified Developer ✅ Zend Certified PHP Engineer ✅ Building on Magento 1 since 2009 ✅ Building on Magento 2 since 2015 ✅ Polyglot: PHP, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Go lang Hi, I'm Raj (aka MagePsycho) — a Senior Magento Architect with 15+ years building and scaling e-commerce stores, including Nespresso MEA, Mumzworld and CITRUSS across the Middle East and GCC. If your store has a problem, I've very likely solved it before. I work end to end on Magento / Adobe Commerce: architecture, performance, security, payments, integrations, headless/GraphQL, and the day-to-day troubleshooting that keeps a store healthy. I'm also comfortable beyond Magento with Symfony, the MERN stack, PWA/GraphQL and AWS, so I can take on the wider web work around your store too. One thing that sets my work apart today: I've built AI-assisted development deeply into how I deliver (Claude Code, MCP, RAG), which means faster turnaround, tighter code review, and more done in less time, without cutting corners on quality. Outside client work I'm the founder of MagePsycho (Magento extensions and tools used by developers worldwide since 2009), creator of MageSmith, and an active maintainer of Magento Open Source. I'm a blogger and indie hacker at heart, always sharpening the craft. 🎖️ Selected results on Magento ✓ Migrated complex Magento 1 stores to Magento 2 — data, modules and themes — with no loss of functionality. ✓ Cut a client's licensing costs by ~$40K/year by moving from Magento 2 Enterprise to Open Source, keeping every feature intact. ✓ Upgraded heavily customized Magento stores (e.g. 2.1 → 2.4) cleanly and safely. ✓ Rebuilt critical APIs to hold up at 55K requests/minute through Black Friday peak traffic. ✓ Brought slow GraphQL APIs down from 20s+ to under 150ms, and TTFB to under 250ms on sluggish stores. ✓ Lifted Lighthouse / Core Web Vitals scores from the 20s up to the 80s across listing, product and checkout pages. ✓ Designed and built a fully personalized multi-vendor marketplace on Magento. ✓ Built advanced pricing on top of native Magento — introductory pricing, 7-day deals, event offers and more. ✓ Implemented multi-website / multi-source stock management. ✓ Integrated payments, ERPs and search — Tabby, Tamara, Checkout_com, NetSuite, Algolia. ✓ Ran code and security audits across many Magento projects. ✓ Set up Magento from the ground up on AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner and others, with all the supporting services. ✓ Built dozens of Magento 1 and 2 modules to extend merchants' stores. Whether you need a fast fix, ongoing store management, a performance overhaul, or a senior pair of hands to own the technical side, I'd be glad to help. Send me a message with what you're working on and I'll tell you honestly how I can help.