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Vikram Parmar

Senior Backend Developer — Gujarat, India · Open to remote roles — global, async-friendly

vikramparmar385@gmail.com · +91 6353688399 · LinkedIn · Résumé (PDF)

summary

Backend-focused engineer with 4.5+ years of experience building and scaling production systems using Laravel and PHP, on platforms serving 50k+ users. Led a cross-functional team of 6 developers spanning backend, frontend, mobile and AI/ML on a multi-service production platform. Strong in REST API design, multi-tenant architecture, database optimization at scale, and distributed system design — sharding, read replicas, caching strategy and failover — for systems handling 1M+ requests.

metrics

50k+ users served · 1M+ requests handled · ~35% faster api response · 6 developers led

experience

Software Developer — Backend — Vivansh Infotech

Oct 2023 — Present · Ahmedabad, India

• Designed and maintain REST APIs in Laravel powering core product features in production.
• Introduced Redis caching and queue-based processing, reducing average API response time by ~35% and cutting database load during peak traffic.
• Built and maintained Horizon/Supervisor-monitored background job pipelines, improving job reliability to ~99% uptime.
• Implemented a test-gated CI/CD pipeline — changes deploy automatically only after passing test suites, with Slack notifications on failure.
• Informally mentored 2 developers and contributed to backend architecture decisions across Docker-based, AWS-hosted environments.

Software Developer — eSparkBiz

Jan 2022 — Oct 2023 · Ahmedabad, India

• Developed and maintained backend systems using Laravel and MySQL for client production applications.
• Integrated payment gateways including Stripe, Callpay, Clover and VALR, enabling secure multi-currency transactions.
• Built and hardened financial transaction workflows with zero critical security incidents.

selected work

Capability — Training & workforce development platform

Team lead · 6 devs

A multi-tenant, multi-service platform serving 50k+ users. I led a cross-functional team of six — backend, frontend, mobile and AI/ML — and owned the architecture that holds it together.

• Designed the Redis caching and Horizon queue architecture, cutting average response times ~30% and database load ~40%.
• Built a real-time chat system on Node.js and WebSockets supporting 50k+ users.
• Improved database performance through indexing and query refactoring — slow query incidents down ~50%.
• Achieved zero-downtime deployments across every service on the platform.

Letting a Property — UK property management platform

Full stack · UK market

Backend for the full letting lifecycle — listings, applications, contracts and money movement — with open banking and payment rails wired in end to end.

• Built backend workflows for listings, applications and contract handling using Laravel, Filament and Livewire; owned deployment via Laravel Forge.
• Integrated Lloyds Bank APIs for automated rent collection and payouts.
• Integrated Stripe for secure payment processing, plus Google GeoLocation and PropertyData APIs.

also shipped

• CHARGD (Backend lead) — Multi-tenant SaaS platform. Backend lead on a 3–4 developer team. [Laravel · React]
• Yaalago (Revamp) — Led the backend revamp of an existing platform, deployed via Laravel Sail. [Laravel · React · Sail]
• Lifesthought (Architecture) — Multi-tenant SaaS. Backend architecture parallel to Capability's tenancy model. [Laravel · React]
• Seedlr (Fintech) — Crypto gifting platform (South Africa). Backend integrating Callpay and VALR for currency conversion and Bitcoin transactions. [Laravel · Callpay · VALR]
• One For All Social (6 platform APIs) — Social media management platform. Backend APIs across Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and Pinterest with scheduled-post job processing. [Laravel · Queues]

stack

Languages: PHP · JavaScript

Backend: Laravel · Filament · Livewire · Laravel Octane

Databases: MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB

Caching & Queues: Redis · Horizon · Supervisor

System Design: Multi-tenant architecture · Query optimization & indexing · Read replicas · DB replication & failover · Sharding · Event-driven design

Reliability & Security: Rate limiting & API abuse protection (Cloudflare) · Test-gated CI/CD

Observability: Sentry · Nightwatch · Slack-integrated build alerts

AI / LLM: FastAPI-based AI services · Multi-service orchestration

DevOps: Docker · Laravel Forge · Laravel Sail · AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

Version Control: Git · GitHub · GitLab

education

Bachelor of Engineering, Gujarat Technological University (2022)

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