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Vandita Solanki

@vanditasolanki

Senior backend software engineer delivering reliable PHP/MySQL APIs, incident-driven excellence, and mentorship through scalable releases.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a senior backend role where I can own production reliability, improve API-driven systems, and lead releases—while mentoring engineers and using strong engineering practices to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.

Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience in PHP, MySQL, and API-driven systems. Proven expertise in production incident management, log monitoring

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

CMA-CGM

Jun 2021 - Sep 2025 (4 years 3 months)

Served as Shift Lead for Engineering Support (PST hours), acting as the primary escalation point and subject-matter
expert responsible for real-time decisions during high-severity production incidents.
Diagnosed and resolved complex customer-facing issues by analysing logs, reproducing problems and identifying root
causes across systems.

PHP Vue.Js

Senior Software Engineer

Shipwire

Jun 2021 - Sep 2025 (4 years 3 months)

Served as Shift Lead for Engineering Support, acting as the primary escalation point for high-severity production incidents and driving real-time resolution. Optimized legacy PHP background jobs, implemented Cleo-based B2B integrations, and owned deployment verification, post-release monitoring, and triage to ensure safe releases.

Incident Management PHP MySQL CI CD Vagrant VCluster Cleo Integration Automated Testing

Software Development Engineer II

Justdial Ltd

Dec 2015 - Jun 2021 (5 years 6 months)

Profiled and optimized PHP/MySQL backend modules to improve performance across high-traffic pages, supporting SEO-focused UI and backend development. Built and automated reporting workflows using MySQL stored procedures and ETL processes, contributing across the full Agile/Scrum product lifecycle.

PHP MySQL Query Optimization Stored Procedures ETL Backend Development UI Development Jira Agile Scrum

PHP Developer

Persource Pvt Ltd

May 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year 6 months)

Contributed to rebuilding the EventEdge product from scratch by owning backend PHP modules and frontend integration components. Designed and developed custom APIs for secure data exchange and implemented a responsive browser-based UI using Bootstrap.

PHP API Development Backend Web Application Development Backend Integrations Bootstrap Responsive UI HTML CSS