Vitor L.

Vitor L.

PHP/Laravel developer

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Brazil, Curitiba

Vitor is a professional Software developer with over 10 years of experience with PHP and MySQL, and over 5 years of experience with Laravel and AWS. He has successfully completed lots of projects for clients from all over the world. He is able to find an optimal solution to the most complex problems, he loves challenges!

Vitor is open for a new project now.

Skills

  • PHP
  • Laravel
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Experience

Military Service, Brazil, Curitiba

Warrant Officer

January 2019 to December 2008

Military Service position

Marketing Agency, Remote

Senior Software Engineer

May 2016 to November 2019

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • Laravel,
  • MySQL

Responsibilities: 

  • E-commerce performance, we were able to reduce the page load from 16 to 2 seconds, which achieved almost 30% increase in sales and a 50% reduction on page bounce rate
  • E-commerce security, implementations like CSRF protection, request throttle, SQL injection filtering, and bot protection granted us resilience during attacks and intense periods like black Fridays
  • E-commerce development, general features, and maintenance.
  • Google Merchant API integration, providing real-time integration for products.
  • Suppliers Webservice development, which granted us a 7% tax reduction and a 15% sales increase for suppliers using it.
  • Chatbot development, which allowed us to increase our e-commerce sales without having to scale our support and sales teams. As the project was developed using an omnichannel architecture, it was able to be used on several companies' strategies like marketplaces.
  • Migrated development environment from vagrant to docker, let our developers work on multiple projects at once in a more modern environment.
  • Introduced to the concept of environment variables to the company, which allowed credentials to be centralized and more easily removed from versioning tools in the future.
  • Introduced the concept of deploy using tags to the company, which were the best tool for the company at the moment.
  • Helped with onboarding of senior developers, as I've worked on most of the company's tech teams, I was able to provide an overview of most projects, purpose, and connections between them.
  • I was constantly asked to help with architecture decisions for new systems and tech decisions.

Travel&Tourism Startup, Remote

CTO

August 2015 to May 2016

Stack:

  • MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js)

Responsibilities: 

  • I was responsible for all technical decisions and development. We were a real estate management company for people interested in renting at Airbnb. Most of the process was manual and we had a pretty decent sales/onboarding/support pipeline using pipefy, zapier and some webhooks. 
  • Later we developed an onboarding page that crawled Airbnb and automatically imported the user's Airbnb link to our database and suggested a few things like rent cost, expenses, and our fee. And how much our client would expect to earn by letting we manage their business. 
  • We also had a small blog where we posted content in multiple languages. 
  • I was developing a prototype for automation of processes and letting our teamwork from a centralized tool which would save them lots of time logging in and out of accounts to check user's messages and bids but most of the team had already disbanded due to the founders' disagreement. 

Online Payments Service, Remote

Senior Software Developer

August 2014 to December 2014

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • Custom framework,
  • MySQL

Responsibilities: 

  • I worked very briefly as part of the payments API team, after a few months I was assigned a small project which was to develop an integration with PayPal, allowing users to add funds to their PayPal account using a ticket, for Brazilian users that did not possess a credit card.

System for Motor Vehicle Shops, Remote

Senior Software Developer

January 2014 to August 2014

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • Laravel,
  • CodeIgniter,
  • AWS,
  • MySQL

Responsibilities: 

  • I was responsible for maintaining the company's ERP which I was also refactoring due to code degradation. I've also migrated it from a smaller hosting company to AWS. After a change in priorities, I was appointed to work on the company's new project, a classified ads portal for used cars.
  • During that time I was working with Codeigniter and Laravel for the new version of the ERP and classified ads portal, respectively, and using solr for our classified's ads search engine.

Online Payments System, Remote

Junior Software Developer

July 2013 to December 2013

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • Java,
  • Selenium,
  • Custom framework,
  • MySQL

Responsibilities: 

  • I was the first technical developer hired to work from Brazil.
  • One of my responsibilities was to do browser automation to fetch payments from several internet banking sites. I was using selenium for Firefox and java for that.
  • I also worked on a few minor tasks on the payment gateway which used PHP and MySQL.

Online Store, Remote

Junior Software Developer

May 2012 to February 2013

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • MySQL,
  • Custom framework,
  • AWS EC2, S3, RDS 

Responsibilities: 

  • Migrate a WordPress application from a generic hosting company to AWS
  • Helped to migrate the e-commerce from the same generic hosting company to AWS Improved/developed/fixed features and performance on e-commerce platform

Software Development Company, Remote

Internship Trainee

June 2010 to December 2010

Stack:

  • PHP,
  • C#

Responsibilities: 

  • Intranet development using PHP and C# for app development using Microsoft Sharepoint.