Available for Technical Team Lead & Senior Backend Roles

Technical Team Lead ā€¢ Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer ā€¢ Backend Architect

Parag Lashkari

Building reliable software. Leading high-performing engineering squads.

Iā€™m a Technical Team Lead and Senior PHP/Laravel Developer specializing in architecting scalable backend systems, payment gateways with financial idempotency, mission-critical REST APIs, and enterprise ERP/IoT platforms. I bridge the gap between deep engineering craftsmanship and pragmatic team leadership.

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PHP 8+Laravel 11MySQL & IndexingREST APIs & WebhooksPayment IdempotencyRedis & QueuesTeam Leadership & ADRs
10+
Production Platforms
ERP, Industrial IoT & SaaS systems
99.9%
Reliability Focus
Idempotency & zero data-loss workflows
100%
Hands-on Leadership
Discovery, PR reviews & squad mentoring
Enterprise
System Scale
High-throughput MySQL, APIs & queues

Engineering Pillars & Core Strengths

How I approach software engineering, system resilience, and team delivery.

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Scalable Backend Architecture

Crafting clean, maintainable PHP/Laravel systems leveraging the Service-Repository pattern, dependency injection, and asynchronous queued jobs. Designed for high throughput, low latency, and zero technical debt accumulation.

PHP 8+LaravelQueues & JobsClean Architecture
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Financial & API Reliability

Engineering payment pipelines protected by UUID idempotency keys, robust transaction state machines, and strict webhook reconciliation. Zero double-charges, resilient retries, and safe audit trails.

Payment APIsIdempotencyWebhooksACID Transactions
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Pragmatic Technical Leadership

Leading engineering squads through technical discovery, task decomposition, and mentorship. Conducting thorough, constructive code reviews and authoring Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) to align teams.

Team LeadCode ReviewsADRsAgile Delivery

About Me

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Hands-On Problem Solver & Engineering Guide

As a hands-on engineer and technical lead, I work across the full software lifecycle: from real-time industrial telemetry platforms handling sensor streams to multi-tenant ERPs with complex inventory ledgers and high-volume billing systems.

Bridging code and business outcomes: I believe the best technical leaders stay grounded in code while keeping commercial objectives front and center. Whether debugging tricky concurrency locks in MySQL or unblocking junior engineers, I prioritize maintainability, reliability, and clear communication.

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Architecture

Scalable Backends & APIs

10+ Projects

Enterprise ERP, Industrial IoT & SaaS

Team Lead

Mentorship, Architecture & Delivery

Core Stack

PHP, Laravel, MySQL, REST & Redis

Featured Projects & Case Studies

Selected production platforms covering enterprise ERP, industrial IoT, and workflow automation.

Automation & SaaSLead Backend Architect & Technical Lead (Active)

Sports Tournament & Event Housing Platform

All-in-One Tournament Operations, Event Housing & Club Management SaaS

Architecting and scaling an enterprise SaaS platform powering youth sports tournaments, competitive event housing, sports facility reservations, and club operations. Features complex multi-tenant event scheduling, real-time live scoring, team registrations, hotel room block booking workflows, and automated financial settlements.

ā­ Key Impact: Active Lead Backend & Architecture contribution

LaravelPHP 8+MySQLREST APIsPayment GatewaysRedisMulti-tenant SaaSQueues & Webhooks
Enterprise ERPLead Full-Stack Architect

ERP & IoT Panel

Managing Business Operations & Real-Time Plant Telemetry

Engineered an integrated ERP and IoT platform using Laravel and the MEAN stack to streamline business operations while enabling real-time monitoring and control of plant data. The ERP system automated sales, HR, inventory and procurement workflows while the IoT dashboard provided real-time plant telemetry and sensor monitoring.

ā­ Key Impact: 85% reduction in manual paper tracking

LaravelNode.jsMongoDBIoTMySQLReal-time AnalyticsWebSockets
Industrial IoTBackend & IoT Systems Engineer

IoT Furnace Controller

Industrial Furnace Remote Automation & Temperature Profiling

Built an industrial IoT-based furnace monitoring and control platform using the MEAN stack for continuous thermal data collection, historical curve analytics, remote setpoint adjustment, and operational safety governance.

ā­ Key Impact: 24/7 continuous thermal telemetry

Node.jsExpressMongoDBAngularIoT SensorsIndustrial Automation
Industrial IoTFull-Stack Developer & Data Architect

Energy Monitoring Dashboard

Industrial Power Consumption Analytics & Peak Demand Insights

Built an IoT-based industrial energy monitoring platform using the MEAN stack to track plant electrical consumption in real-time, diagnose power factor drops, predict maximum demand spikes, and generate cost-optimization reports.

ā­ Key Impact: 18% reduction in peak-hour electricity penalties

Node.jsExpressAngularMongoDBEnergy MetersData VisualizationIoT
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Engineering Notes & Architecture Guides

Practical, experience-driven insights on Laravel architecture, payment idempotency, and technical leadership.

6 min readFebruary 2026

Designing Reliable Payment Retries with Idempotency Keys in Laravel

How idempotency keys work in payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal), why parameter mismatches cause failures, and how Laravel applications should model payment attempts safely.

Payment APIsIdempotency KeysLaravel Payments
7 min readJanuary 2026

Building Resilient & Maintainable Third-Party API Integrations in Laravel

Practical architectural patterns for service boundaries, Data Transfer Objects (DTOs), webhook reconciliation, exponential backoff retries, and error boundaries in Laravel.

Laravel ArchitectureAPI IntegrationsService Layer
8 min readDecember 2025

Hands-On Technical Leadership: Balancing Code, Architecture & Team Growth

A practical guide for Technical Team Leads on navigating the tension between writing code, mentoring engineers, reviewing pull requests, and delivering business value on schedule.

Technical Team LeadEngineering LeadershipCode Reviews
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Let's Build Something Resilient Together

Looking for a hands-on Technical Team Lead, Senior Laravel Developer, or Backend Architect?

Whether you are architecting a new SaaS platform, resolving critical performance bottlenecks, integrating complex payment workflows, or scaling an engineering team with hands-on technical guidance, I would love to connect.

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