Vlad Simon
Summary
Building handcrafted, scalable business applications with Laravel.
I help clients serve thousands of users by leading projects end-to-end — architecture through deployment and maintenance.
Best Final Year Project Prize, University of Leicester.
Skills
Core Stack: PHP 8.x / Laravel 11–12, Filament 3/4/5 — multi-tenant SaaS, queue-driven pipelines, REST API design
Data: MySQL (query optimisation, migrations at scale), Redis (caching, sessions, queue backend)
Real-Time: WebSockets via Reverb & Pusher, event broadcasting, push notification systems
Frontend: Inertia.js (SPA) + Vue 3/React, Blade, React Native / Expo (mobile), Livewire + Alpine.js
Payments: Stripe (subscriptions, webhook pipelines), Netopia
AI: OpenAI API, Claude API — batch completion pipelines. Agent configuration, automated document generation
Infrastructure: Docker, Git workflows, GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build, CI/CD pipeline design
Quality: Pest PHP (feature + unit tests), PHPStan (static analysis)
Experience
End-to-end project development — scoping, architecture, development, deployment, maintenance — shipping features in short cycles with direct client communication.
Digital Accessibility Compliance Solution LaravelRBACFilament CMSBladeAPIInertia + Vue
Stripe · Sendgrid · Google Cloud Storage · Socialite · BunnyCDN · Intercom
- Automated monitoring dashboard and compliance reports based on scanned user domain pages. Per-domain configurable accessibility widget, multi-language compliance statements.
Therapy Session Management Platform LaravelRBACFilament CMSAPIReact Native (Expo)
Sanctum · Reverb · Sendgrid · Spatie Media Library
- Event-driven system for recurring schedules, progress/budget tracking, automated monthly report creation, and real-time emergency alerts from admins to coordinators.
B2C/B2B International Delivery Platform LaravelRBACFilament CMSBlade
Stripe · Zeo Route Planner · Google Maps · Sendgrid · SMSAPI
- Order tracking pipeline handling polymorphic stops, package scanning upon pickup/delivery, dynamic pricing, statistics across orders, users, and payments.
Part of a small dedicated team that shipped multiple client projects.
Market Research and Survey Analysis Platform LaravelInertia + VueMulti-tenancy
OpenAI
- AI-driven survey decoding pipeline: Excel uploads parsed, batch jobs dispatched, results correlated back to questions — cut manual analysis from weeks to minutes.
- Contributed to and maintained a custom, config-driven, modular PHP CRM. Developed invoicing, payment gateway, and e-commerce modules. Handled deployments, security patches, and performance monitoring across 20+ client websites.
Education
BSc Software Engineering — University of Leicester, UK
2019 – 2022
Best Final Year Project Prize, 2022