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AbdulRahman El-zahaby

@abdulrahmanel-zahaby

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I build and scale Laravel API platforms, serverless backends, and public-sector integrations.

Egypt

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for remote Laravel, backend, API engineering, or technical leadership work where I can build scalable platforms, lead teams, and improve architecture, delivery, and engineering standards.

I've built and scaled Laravel API platforms for public-sector, e-commerce, healthcare, logistics, and learning products. At Cloudypedia, I lead a four-engineer team delivering a team-based care platform for a national public-health programme.

I designed and secured Apigee API proxies for national-scale platforms across utilities, taxation, healthcare, real-estate regulation, telecommunications, and e-learning. I modernized SOAP services into REST APIs, built authentication and traffic-management policies, and created Node.js developer portals on Google Cloud.

For Lockers, I architected a greenfield Laravel backend, deployed it serverlessly on AWS Lambda through Laravel Vapor, and integrated regional payment gateways. I also led and mentored backend engineers while establishing CI, testing, clean-architecture, and code-review practices.

I'm an open-source contributor whose Laravel and PHP packages have more than 24,000 downloads. My dbml-to-laravel package generates Eloquent models and migrations from DBML schemas and is installed about 1,600 times each month.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Team Lead, PHP and Laravel

Current

Cloudypedia

May 2026 - Present (4 months)

Led a full-stack team of 4 engineers building a team-based care platform for a national public-health programme, with a Laravel backend and a React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind front end. Owned scoping, code review, engineering standards and technical direction across both stacks.

Laravel PHP React TypeScript Tailwind Team Leadership Code Review Technical Direction Public Sector

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Freelance Web Developer

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Self-employed

Jan 2017 - Present (9 years 8 months)

Delivered 50+ independent PHP, Laravel and JavaScript projects with repeat clients, owning scoping, pricing, delivery and support. Completed 40 reviewed client engagements, many diagnosing and repairing broken Laravel and PHP applications.

PHP Laravel JavaScript Client Management Project Scoping Delivery Support

API Engineer, Apigee and Google Cloud

Cloudypedia

Feb 2024 - Apr 2026 (2 years 2 months)

Designed, secured and shipped Apigee API proxies for national-scale public-sector platforms across multiple sectors. Modernized legacy SOAP services into REST APIs and built authentication flows, rate-limiting and quota policies, and traffic management for shared public-sector APIs.

Apigee Google Cloud Platform REST APIs SOAP API Security Rate Limits Quota Management OpenAPI Swagger API Design Incident Response

Backend Team Lead

Lockers

Nov 2023 - Oct 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Architected and delivered a greenfield Laravel 10 and PHP 8.2 backend and its API, contributing 2,487 commits over two years on a part-time schedule. Deployed serverless on AWS via Laravel Vapor, with Redis caching and Laravel Octane and Swoole for throughput.

Laravel PHP AWS Laravel Vapor Redis Laravel Octane Swoole JWT Elasticsearch Sendgrid Twilio Git CI CD PHPUnit SOLID Clean Architecture Team Leadership

Lead Software Engineer

UniDevs

May 2021 - May 2025 (4 years)

Led client delivery across multiple countries, owning engineering for client projects from requirements through deployment. Built a Kuwaiti e-commerce platform backend and delivered medical booking, clinic management, logistics, marketplace and learning management systems.

Laravel PHP Clinic Management Logistics Marketplace LMS Client Management Technical Leadership

Developer Portal Engineer, Apigee and Drupal

Cloudypedia

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024 (5 months)

Built and customized Apigee Developer Portals on Drupal, including API Catalog configuration. Developed custom Drupal modules and theming for public-sector API portals.

Apigee Drupal Custom Module Development

Full-Stack Team Lead

AMIT Learning

Feb 2023 - Aug 2023 (6 months)

Led 5 to 7 developers on full-stack client projects in Laravel, Vue.js, JavaScript and MongoDB, and owned scope, timelines and code quality with project managers, stakeholders and clients. Owned technical hiring for the team and introduced an agile workflow and team-wide code review.