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Muhammad Israr

Muhammad Israr

Full-Stack Laravel Developer

I'm a full-stack developer who specializes in Laravel, MySQL, and Flutter, with a particular focus on backend architecture for SaaS products.

Over the past six years I've built and maintained multiple production platforms simultaneously — a multi-tenant school ERP system serving dozens of institutions, a property booking and rental marketplace with separate admin, partner, and customer panels, and an email marketing platform handling high-volume campaign delivery.

My approach is methodical: deep static analysis before writing a single line of code, honest surfacing of pre-existing bugs rather than papering over them, and drop-in deliverables with clear documentation so nothing I build becomes a black box for whoever maintains it next. I care more about a system working reliably at 3am with no one watching than about looking clever in a code review.

When I'm not deep in a Laravel app, I'm usually reading about distributed systems, contributing small fixes to open-source tools I use daily, or mentoring junior developers on debugging methodology rather than just handing them the answer.
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Work experience

Mar 2022 — Present

Full-Stack Laravel Developer

Independent / Freelance · Remote

Design and build multi-tenant SaaS platforms for clients across education, hospitality, and marketing sectors. Own projects end to end — architecture, database design, backend, frontend, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. Delivered a multi-tenant school ERP system, a property booking marketplace with separate admin/partner/customer panels, and a high-volume email marketing platform with queue-based campaign delivery.

Jan 2021 — Present

Full-Stack Developer

Freelance / Independent · Remote

Building and maintaining multiple SaaS platforms including a multi-tenant school ERP, a property booking platform, and an email marketing tool.

Jun 2020 — Feb 2022

Senior Backend Developer

Northgate Digital · Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Led backend development for a fleet of internal Laravel applications serving logistics and inventory management for mid-size retail clients. Migrated a legacy PHP 5 codebase to Laravel 9, cutting average response times by 40%. Mentored two junior developers and introduced code review standards and automated testing that reduced production incidents by roughly a third.

Aug 2018 — May 2020

Backend Developer

Brightline Software · Austin, TX

Built and maintained REST APIs powering a B2B invoicing platform. Worked closely with the mobile team to design API contracts for the companion iOS/Android apps. Implemented a queue-based PDF generation and email delivery system that processed thousands of invoices daily without blocking the request cycle.

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Education

2021 — 2021

Certified Laravel Developer

Laravel Certification Program

Advanced certification covering queue architecture, testing strategies, and multi-tenancy patterns.

2017 — 2021

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

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2014 — 2018

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin

Focused on distributed systems and database design. Senior capstone project: a real-time collaborative document editor built with WebSockets.