01 / CORE
Backend architecture
API design, database schema, system design for products that need to scale.
API designSchema designSystem designScaling
Scope the backend →AVAILABLE FOR Q4 CONSULTING
I build SaaS products end to end — backend-first, shipped complete
Senior full-stack developer. My core strength is backend architecture — multi-tenancy, billing, integrations — and I carry that into the frontend and mobile app (Flutter) so you get one person who owns the whole system, not just an API.
LaravelMulti-TenancyAPIs & IntegrationsRedisFlutterFrontend
8+Years building backend systems
Full-stackBackend, frontend, mobile
SERVICES
Six engagements, one discipline
Most work starts as one of these and expands into architecture ownership.
Multi-tenant SaaS
Tenant isolation, per-tenant data and billing, onboarding that doesn't need a human in the loop.
Integrations & APIs
Third-party API integration, webhooks, retry/failure handling that doesn't leak into the product.
Billing & subscriptions
Subscription logic, usage-based billing, payment provider integration.
Frontend
The interface layer for the systems above, built to match the product, not a generic template.
Mobile (Flutter)
A mobile client for the same backend, when the product needs one.
CASE STUDIES
Evidence, not decoration
Client names are withheld. The architecture and the shape of the problem are not.
MULTI-TENANT SAAS
One multi-tenant platform, one deploy, no cross-tenant leaks
Built a multi-tenant architecture from a single-tenant Laravel codebase — a tenant-scoped connection resolver, model-level scoping, and a single migration pipeline instead of a per-customer manual deploy. Onboarding a new tenant went from a multi-day manual process to a self-serve flow.
LaravelMySQLRedis
METHOD
How I approach a new project
- 01UnderstandBusiness constraints, traffic shape, failure history, what "broken" costs you.
- 02Diagnose / DesignAudit or architecture doc with trade-offs stated and decisions recorded.
- 03BuildIncremental delivery behind flags, across backend and any frontend/mobile client the project needs.
- 04StabiliseObservability, alerts that mean something, load validation before launch.
- 05SupportRetained architecture ownership, or a clean handover your team can carry.
ABOUT
Eight years inside systems that couldn't go down
I started in backend, and it's still where I do my deepest work — the parts users never see and always feel: the integration that must reconcile, the queue that must not lose a job, the tenant that must never see another tenant's data. Over time I extended that same ownership forward into the frontend and into mobile with Flutter, so a project doesn't stall at a handoff between “the backend person” and “the frontend person” — it's one person who understands the whole system.
Backend and architecture first
Frontend and Flutter mobile when the project needs full delivery
System design before code
Full ownership, no hand-waving
RELIABILITY
I treat observability and rollback plans as part of the deliverable, not an afterthought.
PROCESS
5 STAGESA request moving through the engagement
01
Understand
Business constraints, traffic shape, failure history, what "broken" costs you.
02
Diagnose / Design
Audit or architecture doc with trade-offs stated and decisions recorded.
03
Build
Incremental delivery behind flags, across backend and any frontend/mobile client the project needs.
04
Stabilise
Observability, alerts that mean something, load validation before launch.
05
Support
Retained architecture ownership, or a clean handover your team can carry.
INSIGHTS
All writing →Notes from production
Idempotency is a product decision, not a header
Where to put the dedupe boundary when the vendor retries and the customer doesn't care why.
Choosing a tenancy model you can still afford at 500 tenants
Row scoping, schema-per-tenant, database-per-tenant — and the migration cost of each.
Your queue is fine. Your job design isn't.
Poison jobs, unbounded payloads, and the retry storm that took down the database.
CONTACT
Let's build a backend that doesn't become tomorrow's bottleneck.
Send the shape of the problem — traffic, integrations, what keeps breaking. You'll get an honest read on scope within two working days.