Muhammad Israr
Full-Stack Laravel Developer
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.
Work experience
Full-Stack Laravel Developer
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.
Full-Stack Developer
Building and maintaining multiple SaaS platforms including a multi-tenant school ERP, a property booking platform, and an email marketing tool.
Senior Backend Developer
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.
Backend Developer
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.
Education
Certified Laravel Developer
Advanced certification covering queue architecture, testing strategies, and multi-tenancy patterns.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Focused on distributed systems and database design. Senior capstone project: a real-time collaborative document editor built with WebSockets.