Sumaia Aktar
@sumaiaaktar
I build Laravel and AI-powered SaaS products, from multi-tenant HR platforms to autonomous agents.
What I'm looking for
I'm building OnBordly from an empty repository into a multi-tenant HRM SaaS, shipping employee management, leave, attendance, onboarding, RBAC, audit logging, analytics, subscription billing, and feature gating.
At WPDeveloper, I built Laravel backends and Vue.js frontends for easy.jobs, an AI-powered, GDPR-compliant recruitment SaaS serving 8,000+ organizations. I delivered AI Apply, candidate scoring, resume parsing, API integrations, reusable Laravel packages, and tests that improved production reliability.
I've contributed 37 merged pull requests to laravel/framework and 37 to laravel/ai, Laravel's official AI SDK. My work includes provider gateways and failover support across 13 LLM providers, conversation persistence fixes, usage accounting, and feature test suites for AI capabilities.
I also design and operate self-hosted AI agents and supporting infrastructure, turning GitHub issues into fixing pull requests and delivering real-time Slack briefings. Across production and open-source codebases, I've merged 412 pull requests and published Laravel and npm packages.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Co-Founder & Engineer
OnBordly
Feb 2026 - Present (6 months)
Sole engineer on a multi-tenant HRM SaaS, taking it from empty repository to a working product. Built employee management, leave, attendance, onboarding, RBAC with custom roles, audit logging, and admin analytics across 8 shipped modules.
Software Developer
WPDeveloper
May 2021 - Feb 2026 (4 years 9 months)
Designed and maintained scalable Laravel backends and responsive Vue.js frontends for easy.jobs, an AI-powered, GDPR-compliant recruitment SaaS serving 8,000+ organizations. Built the AI Apply conversational application engine and integrated AI candidate scoring and resume auto-parsing into the hiring pipeline.
Software Developer
Geeky Social Ltd.
Feb 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 3 months)
Built dynamic Laravel web applications and pixel-perfect, responsive user interfaces with modern frontend technologies. Collaborated with design teams and optimized existing applications for performance and usability.
Project - BanglaPress24
BanglaPress24
English news portal for a US-based Bangla newspaper, with article management, category navigation, and a responsive front-end.
Open Source Contribution
37 merged pull requests into laravel/framework, including fixes for PendingDispatch resolving Cache, DatabaseQueue lock popping, digits_between validation TypeError, and enum support in BroadcastManager and PasswordBrokerManager.
Featured Project - AI Apply Chat
easy.jobs
Built a multi-step conversational chat engine guiding candidates through personal info, education, employment, cover letter, documents, video, screening questions, and quiz. Integrated CV/resume auto-parsing to pre-fill candidate data from uploaded documents.
Project - ShopSphere
ShopSphere
E-commerce storefront with a cohesive design system, multi-vendor brand catalog, product quick-view, guest-order linking at checkout, dynamic admin branding, and pluggable Local/Amazon S3 storage providers.
Senior Software Engineer
OnBordly
Architected with a service/repository layer, Spatie permissions, and Jetstream Teams for per-company tenancy.
Core Contributor to Laravel's Official AI SDK
Built and hardened provider gateways across 13 LLM providers. Implemented failover error handling and model-attribute resolution across provider failover lists. Added InsufficientCreditsException for OpenRouter/DeepSeek credit exhaustion and captured missing usage/token accounting across OpenAI-shaped providers.
Autonomous AI Agent Fleet
Self-Hosted
Built and operate three production AI agents on a self-managed 4 GB VPS, all Slack-integrated and conversational. Code agent converts GitHub issues into fixing pull requests, performs automated PR review, and patches bugs. AI-news and world-news agents deliver real-time filtered briefings to Slack channels.
Project - SMEVai
SMEVai
Cloud accounting platform with accounting, invoicing, stock-management, and financial-reporting modules for SME Hishab, enabling non-accountants to manage real-time finances. Contributed 220 merged pull requests over two years as a primary contributor.
Project - STYGEN Gift
STYGEN Gift
Multi-vendor gift marketplace with vendor onboarding, product catalog, and secure payment processing.
Project - First Aid AMC
First Aid AMC
Online exam platform with timed MCQ tests, question banks, mock exams, automated scoring, and candidate result analytics for a medical-exam (AMC) preparation provider.
Project - Quick Order App
Living Colors
Online ordering application letting customers place product/service orders, track status, and manage payments.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
United International University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering
2013 - 2018
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science & Engineering from United International University, Dhaka, with coursework in software development, algorithms, databases, and AI.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
DigitalOcean
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Docker Compose
GitHub Actions
DB
MySQL
DocuSign
Nextcloud
Laravel
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Redis
Vue.js
jQuery
JavaScript
HTML5
PHP
Linux
PayPal
Trello
ClickUp
Wekan
Gemini
PHPUnit
Jitsi
NGINX
Zapier
Spatie Permissions
Linode
npm
Ollama
ElevenLabs
Cursor
N8N
Inertia.js
OpenRouter
DeepSeek
Claude Code
LibreChat
ChatGPT
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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Skills
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