Azam Feyznia
@azamfeyznia
Senior PHP/Laravel backend engineer who architects scalable, secure, high-performance systems.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience in PHP and Laravel, focused on architecting, scaling, and securing high-performance web applications. I specialize in performance optimization, backend architecture, asynchronous processing, and building robust financial and marketplace systems.
My achievements include a 10x API performance improvement, refactoring large legacy codebases toward SOLID design, eliminating race conditions, and hardening applications against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. I have designed billing and payment routing systems, integrated multiple third-party banking APIs, and authored OpenAPI documentation for large endpoint surfaces.
I work well in agile, cross-functional teams and blend pragmatic engineering with strong attention to reliability, observability, and maintainability. I prioritize clear API contracts, automated testing strategies, and production monitoring to ensure resilient systems and faster onboarding.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Software Engineer
Jewel Pro Tech
Jun 2023 - Present (2 years 7 months)
Boosted GemGem API performance 10x by eliminating N+1 queries, implementing multi-layered Redis caching and DB index optimization; refactored 30% of a legacy monolith and built core marketplace/payment systems ensuring idempotency and hardened security against 35+ OWASP issues.
Senior Backend Developer
Jibimo
Dec 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 6 months)
Built a scalable billing system and dynamic payment routing engine, integrated 5+ bank APIs, and created batch financial settlement and reconciliation pipelines that reduced discrepancies by ~90%.
Software Engineer
Sanjagh
May 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)
Developed PHP and Go services within a polyglot microservices architecture, migrated analytical data to ClickHouse to reduce resource usage, and produced nine data-driven reports via aggregation queries.
Backend Developer
Boutique Hotel Awards
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021 (8 months)
Built backend integrations for multiple third-party hotel supplier APIs and executed an ETL process to migrate extensive hotel and room data, including images, from a legacy system to a new platform.
Junior Full Stack Developer
Pouya Rahkar Pars
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020 (1 year 9 months)
Developed and maintained full-stack features using an MVC framework and JavaScript, contributed to server-side logic and RESTful APIs, and managed versioning with Git to stabilize and refactor an existing codebase.
Hadoop Developer
Exir Rayaneh Saba
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018 (1 year 9 months)
Worked on Hadoop-based data processing tasks and supported BI workflows to enable large-scale data analysis for the organization.
BI Expert
Web Technology Lab
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 (1 year 11 months)
Delivered business intelligence solutions and analytics to drive data-informed decisions across teams during a two-year tenure.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering
2011 - 2014
Grade: 16.70
Activities and societies: Focused on advanced software design and engineering principles.
Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Hardware Engineering
2007 - 2011
Grade: 16.23
Activities and societies: Covering computer architecture and hardware systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Hardware Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
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Location
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