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GiorgiKakabadze.

Senior PHP Full Stack Developer & Team Lead. Building scalable SaaS, realtime, and IoT systems for the last 8+ years.

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01 / About

Senior engineer, team lead, builder.

8+ years building scalable SaaS, payment-adjacent, and realtime systems. Framework-agnostic with deep PHP fundamentals (PHP 8.x, OOP, SOLID, design patterns) and a strong track record of leading small, high-output teams through cycle-based delivery.

Currently at Quiet Light, leading a 3-engineer squad modernizing legacy jQuery/Laravel apps. Previously Lead Architect at Casatrade — Laravel Octane API serving 5+ internal apps, and a GPS fleet platform handling 26,000+ concurrent device connections.

End-to-end: backend architecture, REST/OpenAPI design, Vue 3 / React with TypeScript, production DevOps on Docker and CI/CD. I own systems from schema to UI.

Tbilisi, GE·Open to remote·Cycle-based delivery·English C1 · Russian B1 · Georgian native
02 / Stack

What I reach for.

Framework-agnostic. These are the tools I lean on most often — picked for fit, not fashion.

Backend
  • PHP 8.x
  • Symfony
  • Laravel 8–12
  • Octane
  • Reverb
  • Phalcon
  • Pure PHP
Frontend
  • Vue 3
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Inertia.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn-vue
APIs
  • REST
  • OpenAPI / Swagger
  • Sanctum
  • JWT / OAuth
  • Versioning
Data
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • SQL tuning
  • Zero-downtime migrations
Realtime
  • WebSockets
  • SSE
  • Laravel Echo
  • Laravel Reverb
  • MQTT
Testing
  • PHPUnit
  • Vitest
  • Playwright (MCP)
  • TDD refactoring
DevOps
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Linux
  • Oracle Cloud
  • DigitalOcean
  • Cloudflare
Hardware / IoT
  • ESP32
  • Raspberry Pi
  • NFC / Wiegand
  • FastAPI edge
03 / Work

Selected projects.

Things I've shipped or actively run. Mix of professional work, side projects, and the family business.

01 · Family business · founder / operator
Live

alldigital.ge

Shopify storefront for our family-owned digital goods business. I run the operations end-to-end — catalog, payments, customer support, and the surrounding infrastructure.

  • Shopify
  • Liquid
  • Ops
  • Payments
Visit store
02 · Full-stack IoT platform

Padel Facility Access Control

Laravel backend orchestrating MQTT-connected ESP32 controllers with NFC / Wiegand readers and Raspberry Pi edge devices running FastAPI. Bookings, access policies, audit log.

  • Laravel
  • MQTT
  • ESP32
  • NFC / Wiegand
  • Raspberry Pi
  • FastAPI
Project notes
03 · Casatrade · co-lead developer

GPS Fleet Monitoring Platform

Real-time fleet platform processing 26,000+ concurrent device connections. Designed the ingest pipeline, query patterns, and the Vue + WebSocket dashboards drivers and dispatchers use day-to-day.

  • Laravel
  • WebSockets
  • Redis
  • Vue 3
  • MySQL
  • Octane
Case study
04 · Open source · github.com/trongio

Project Zomboid Server Manager

Self-hostable management panel for Project Zomboid servers — RCON integration, mod manager, Discord webhooks. Laravel + React + Docker, one-command bring-up.

  • Laravel
  • React
  • Docker
  • RCON
  • Discord
View on GitHub
04 / Play

Stick around for a round.

Two quick games to kill 30 seconds while you decide whether to email me. The shader you've been staring at gets a little louder while you play.

Reflex test

Tap the cyan ring.

5 rounds. The shader spices up while you play.

Last — Round 1 / 5 Best —
05 / Contact

Let's build something good.

Open to senior / lead engineering roles, retained consulting, or interesting product work. Tbilisi-based, fluent async, comfortable across timezones.

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