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Payam GhaderKourehpaz

Open to Remote • EU Relocation

Solution Architect & Senior Laravel/PHP Developer

Full-stack engineer (PHP/Laravel) with 8+ years of experience shipping complex SaaS and consumer applications end-to-end. Strong in performance profiling, SQL optimization, secure API design, CI/CD, and production operations.

Laravel 10–11 PHP 8.x MySQL + Redis Queues/Horizon GitHub Actions (CI/CD) Docker + Nginx Vue + Tailwind
Location Mahabad, Iran
Email [email protected]
GitHub github.com/poyeshsoftware
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/payam-ghader-kourehpaz
Instagram instagram.com/payamprivate

Highlights

  • Built & operated a multi-tenant Laravel SaaS for restaurant ordering (FoodApp), integrating payments, analytics, and merchant administration.
  • Architected an AI personalization engine for Fitnesskar that generates customized workout routines based on user profiles and goals.
  • Developed custom AI features for FoodApp: automated support agent and a natural-language menu management tool for restaurant owners.
  • Co-founded Fitnesskar (1M+ installs, ~150k registered users); designed APIs, admin tooling, and led solution architecture.
  • Improved SEO & page performance; led migrations/refactors with zero downtime.

Experience

Backend-leaning • SaaS • Ops

Senior Full-Stack (Backend-leaning) Engineer — FoodApp.fi

2023 – Present

  • Designed and maintained Laravel 10 backend (PHP 8.x), MySQL, Redis/Horizon queues, and REST APIs for orders, menus, coupons, loyalty, and notifications.
  • Engineered and deployed AI solutions: automated support agent for customer inquiries and an NLP tool to manage menus conversationally.
  • Implemented role-based auth, request validation, rate limits, and observability (structured logs/metrics).
  • Reduced API response times by ~40% on critical endpoints by optimizing SQL and implementing multi-layer Redis caching.
  • Built dashboards & reporting; collaborated on merchant panel UI/UX (Vue/JS) and improved SEO/structured-data for white-label storefronts.

Full-Stack Developer — Digitalspital (Remote, Munich-based)

2022 – 2023

  • Delivered features across Laravel / WordPress / Symfony projects, building secure plugins/components and data integrations.
  • Standardized CI and code style; reduced bug backlog; improved Core Web Vitals to pass thresholds.
  • Contributed to infrastructure automation and deployment hygiene (GitHub Actions, environment parity).

WordPress/PHP Full-Stack Developer (Contract) — kafe.rocks / Time2play

2021 – 2022

  • Built custom WordPress plugins and REST endpoints (PHP 7–8, MySQL), modeling data via CPTs/taxonomies and optimizing queries.
  • Improved performance and Core Web Vitals (LCP/CLS) using Redis/OPcache, CDN, lazy-loading, and query tuning.
  • Drove SEO technical fixes (schema/structured data, sitemap/robots, canonicalization) and implemented CI/CD with GitHub Actions for safe releases.

Co-Founder & Backend Engineer (Part-Time) — Fitnesskar

2019 – Present

  • Architected API/backend (Laravel + MySQL) for a fitness app with 1M+ installs and ~150k signups.
  • Designed and implemented AI-driven personalization that generates custom workout routines based on user profiles, goals, and feedback.
  • Implemented authentication, workout/catalog services, admin panel, and analytics/reporting; designed schema/indexing and added Redis caching.

Earlier Roles (Selected)

  • Ashpazkhune — Full-stack developer; built API endpoints, frontend, and admin panel for a popular cooking recipe app in Iran (+1M installs).
  • Kurdsofts — Backend + Android/iOS (Java, Kotlin, Swift); delivered multiple customer-facing apps.

Selected Projects

FoodApp (SaaS)

foodapp.fi

Fitnesskar

fitnesskar.com

Fitnesskar (Google Play)

App listing

Fitnesskar (App Store)

App listing

Education

M.Sc. E-Commerce

K. N. Toosi University of Technology

B.Sc. IT

Shahid Madani University