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Ashok Barua
Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Fintech & Business Platforms
Location: Chattogram, Bangladesh (UTC+6) · Open to remote or relocationPhone: +880 1829 853914Email: ashokbaruaakas@gmail.comWebsite: ashokbaruaakas.comhttps://ashokbaruaakas.com(opens in a new tab)GitHub: github.com/ashokbaruaakashttps://github.com/ashokbaruaakas(opens in a new tab)LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ashokbaruaakashttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ashokbaruaakas(opens in a new tab)
Professional Summary
Senior full-stack engineer (Laravel, PHP 8, Vue 3, TypeScript) with 7+ years shipping payment systems and business platforms. Business platforms: Sole engineer on the platform that runs Grow More Gaze — a link-building agency serving clients worldwide — spanning ordering, invoicing, multi-gateway payments, email campaigns, payroll, and HRM. Fintech and payments: Core payments engineer and later team lead of 6 engineers on SiPay, a licensed e-money and payment platform in Türkiye — merchant and mobile banking, HSM-backed saved cards, and an upgrade of the legacy codebase from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2. Full lifecycle: Own system design, REST APIs, queues, automated testing (PHPUnit, Pest), CI/CD, and production observability. Open to senior or lead roles, remote or with relocation.
Technical Skills
Languages
PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS
Familiar with: React (with Inertia), Next.js, Go, Rust
Frameworks
Laravel, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, Livewire, Alpine.js
Backend & Architecture
REST API design, System design, Queues & Horizon, Webhooks, Idempotency, PCI-DSS-aligned systems, Observability, Legacy upgrades
Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Practices
Testing (PHPUnit, Pest), Code review, Mentoring, Agile
DevOps & Tools
Linux, Nginx, Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Graylog, MQTT, Deployer
AI & Agent Engineering
OpenClaw (self-hosted AI agent runtime), MCP, LLM APIs, Prompt Engineering
Experience
Sole engineer behind the platform that runs a link-building agency end-to-end — customer ordering, invoicing, multi-gateway payment collection, email campaigns, and staff HRM/payroll — for clients worldwide.
- Designed, built, and operate the agency's entire platform solo — customer ordering portal, invoicing, email campaign system, and staff HRM/payroll — that the business runs on day to day
- Integrated 7 payment gateways (PayPal, Stripe, Paddle, crypto, PayProGlobal, bKash, Nagad) behind idempotent webhook handling for duplicate-safe payment collection
- Own the full lifecycle: architecture, Laravel/Vue/TypeScript development, database design, VPS and server operations, automation, and CI/CD with zero-downtime deploys
- Built the email campaign system powering the agency's outreach and customer marketing
- Weave AI agent workflows (OpenClaw, LLM APIs) into development and operations
Core payments engineer on SiPay, a licensed e-money and payment platform in Türkiye that Softrobotics builds and supports, mainly from its Bangladesh team.
- Developed merchant banking, mobile banking, and payment modules for a high-volume production payment platform
- Built diverse payment flows: link, P2P/B2B, QR, bill pay, POS, cash out, deposit/withdraw
- Worked on microservices with Elasticsearch + Graylog observability, making production incidents traceable across services
- Built the platform side of the HSM integration for PCI-DSS-aligned saved-card storage, encryption, and card management
- Played a key part in upgrading the legacy codebase from PHP 7.4 and an older Laravel release to PHP 8.2 and a modern Laravel version
- Promoted to team lead for the final 4 months, leading 6 engineers through delivery of core payment flows with code review and mentoring
Built HRM/payroll systems wired to IoT attendance hardware, plus client web apps.
- Built core HRM, payroll, and shift modules integrated with fingerprint scanners for a large, multi-site workforce
- Real-time attendance sync via MQTT across the company's attendance devices, replacing nightly manual imports
- Maintained and extended the HRM on the legacy Web2py (Python) framework
- Client websites and automation scripts in PHP, JavaScript, and Python
- Designed responsive UIs and managed hosting end-to-end
Full-Stack Web Developer
- Multiplex Web DesignDelivered custom web apps for SMB clients, end-to-end.
- Handled full project lifecycles for SMB client projects, from requirements through deployment
- Full-stack with PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and responsive design
- Worked directly with clients on scoping, timelines, and delivery
Additional Projects
Supporting projects
bizztechsz.com
Livehttps://bizztechsz.com(opens in a new tab)A freelance client platform for worldwide bulk-order quotes and company portfolios. I work directly with the client on requirements and still maintain it in production.
LaravelVue.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSMySQL
An open-source Laravel starter kit with Vue 3 and Inertia.js that I maintain.
LaravelVue.jsInertia.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
A Docker and AI tooling wrapper for OpenClaw, published to GHCR through automated CI/CD. 500+ image pulls.
DockerGitHub ActionsCI/CDOpenClaw
Notify Fanout
GitHubhttps://github.com/ashokbaruaakas/notify-fanout-action(opens in a new tab)Marketplace (opens in a new tab)A GitHub Action that sends CI/CD notifications to one or many chats from a single workflow step. v1 supports Telegram; webhook, Slack, and more providers are planned.
TypeScriptGitHub ActionsCI/CDTelegram Bot API
Open Source
Merged contributor to inertiajs/inertia-laravel (#700, the inertiaProps testing helper). Maintainer of LaraVibe Standards (Packagist package) and the LaraVibe-Vue starter kit under The SoftPulze, and of clawkit (OpenClaw Docker image on GHCR). Full timeline at ashokbaruaakas.com/open-source .
Education
BSc in Computer Science (evening program, while working full-time)
— East Delta University - Chattogram, BangladeshDiploma in Computer Science
— Bangladesh Sweden Polytechnic Institute - Kaptai, Rangamati, BangladeshLanguages
Bengali (Native)English (Fluent)