Junaid Qadir Shekhanzai

Full Stack Developer · PHP and Laravel, REST API design, Odoo and ERP integrations

16 years building software, going back to a first IT job in 2000. Currently at MIXVOIP, remote, on European hours.

Specialities include system analysis, architecture, system design, testing, debugging and development, on and off the web. A quick learner and un-learner, used to working under pressure and in teams. Also an open source contributor and a polyglot programmer.

Experience

  1. Remote Full Stack Developer

    October 2024 to Present · 1.9 years
    MIXVOIP · Remote

    Building and maintaining scalable web applications.

    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • REST APIs
    • Odoo
  2. Web Developer

    January 2019 to January 2026 · 7 years
    University of Turbat · Turbat

    The university's official site is a bespoke CMS built in Laravel, with Vue and Livewire components.

    • Built the online admission portal
    • Built entry test slip issuance and result announcement
    • Built online admission offer letters
    • Improved the development and release workflow, cutting time to roll out features
    • Introduced application versioning
    • Ran delivery on Agile Scrum
    • Laravel
    • Vue.js
    • Livewire
    • MySQL
  3. Freelance Web Developer

    February 2018 to January 2019 · 11 months
    Self-employed · Karachi

    Full time freelance Laravel development.

    • Laravel
    • PHP
  4. The Brand Crew

    February 2016 to February 2018 · 2 years
    1. Project Manager and Scrum Master

      July 2016 to February 2018 · 1.6 years
      Karachi
      • Planned new projects and managed existing ones
      • Cost estimation for potential projects
      • Introduced Agile Scrum, which brought deadlines back under control
    2. Senior Developer

      February 2016 to February 2018 · 2 years
      Karachi
      • Led the WordPress development team
      • Led the mobile development team
      • Cleared roadblocks and kept the team moving
  5. KW Works

    August 2014 to July 2015 · 11 months
    1. Lead WordPress

      February 2015 to July 2015 · 5 months
      Karachi
      • Set up and troubleshot the hosting environment
      • Built robust WordPress themes from static templates using Timber
      • WordPress
      • Timber
      • PHP
    2. Software Engineer

      August 2014 to July 2015 · 11 months
      Karachi
      • Developed, tested and integrated features for the company's cloud based ERP product
      • Migrated features from WebForms to an MVC architecture with AngularJS
      • ASP.NET MVC
      • AngularJS
  6. Developer

    August 2010 to August 2014 · 4 years
    The Brand Crew · Karachi
    • Developed, debugged and tested websites and web apps
    • Translated designs into static sites for integration into WordPress themes
    • WordPress theme and custom plugin development
    • WordPress
    • PHP
    • jQuery
  7. PHP Developer

    May 2010 to August 2010 · 3 months
    eVision · Karachi
    • Customized and maintained a client system built on the open source webERP
    • Built WordPress based sites for clients
    • PHP
    • webERP
    • WordPress
  8. Technical Support

    February 2000 to 2007 · 6.9 years
    Mekran Hi-Tech Computers · Turbat

    Hardware and software troubleshooting and installation. Before the development career, and the reason the overall IT run is longer than the developer one.

Education

  • Master of Computer Science, Software Engineering
    University of Karachi
    2008 to 2009
  • BSc Computer Science
    University of Balochistan
    2005 to 2007

Languages

  • BalochiNative
  • UrduProfessional
  • EnglishProfessional
  • PersianConversational

Stack

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Laravel
  • Livewire
  • Vue.js
  • Inertia.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • MySQL
  • REST API design
  • Odoo
  • WordPress
  • Linux

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