Stefan Bogdanel

Senior Laravel Engineer | Fintech Specialist | Backend Architect
izdrail.com

Senior Laravel Engineer with 15+ years specializing in fintech and financial systems architecture. Expert in building scalable, secure backend systems for payment processing, debt management, and financial automation. Proven track record delivering high-availability financial platforms using Laravel, microservices, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Strong background in PCI-compliant payment integrations, financial API development, and regulatory-compliant system design.

stefan@izdrail.com
Essex, GB
izdrail
izdrail

Work Experience

Laravel Company

Remote, Europe
Senior Backend Engineer
Oct 2024 – Nov 2025

Led backend development for B2B financial SaaS applications, specializing in payment processing and financial workflow automation.

  • Architected and optimized RESTful APIs with Laravel 12.x processing 50,000+ daily financial transactions, increasing system throughput by 40%
  • Engineered PCI-DSS compliant payment processing with Stripe and PayPal integrations, reducing transaction failures by 25% and improving payment success rate to 98.5%
  • Designed event-driven financial workflow system using Redis and Laravel Queues, processing 10,000+ background jobs daily with 99.8% reliability

Debt Register LTD

Remote, United Kingdom
Senior Laravel Developer - Fintech
May 2024 – Sep 2024

Developed core financial infrastructure for SaaS debt management platform serving 500+ global clients.

  • Engineered secure REST API with OAuth2/JWT authentication, handling 100,000+ sensitive financial data requests daily
  • Integrated Xero accounting API, automating financial reconciliation and reducing manual processing overhead by 60%
  • Executed real-time financial reporting dashboard with 40% faster data aggregation, enabling stakeholders to access insights within seconds

Avrillo LTD

Remote, United Kingdom
Backend Architect - Financial Systems
May 2023 – Sep 2023

Architected microservice-based financial and legal document processing platform handling enterprise-scale volumes.

  • Designed Laravel microservices architecture with RabbitMQ for financial event streaming, processing 50,000+ monthly transactions across 8 microservices
  • Executed AWS auto-scaling infrastructure supporting 100,000+ monthly financial document processing with zero downtime
  • Developed NLP financial entity extraction system achieving 95% accuracy, processing 10,000+ documents monthly

Hornby LTD

Remote, United Kingdom
Senior Backend Developer
May 2021 – Sep 2023

Scaled e-commerce financial systems supporting global retail operations across 15 countries.

  • Built Laravel microservices processing £10,000,000+ annual transactions on AWS infrastructure, serving 100,000+ customers
  • Designed financial event streaming system with RabbitMQ for real-time inventory and payment synchronization across 50+ retail locations
  • Containerized financial services with Docker and Kubernetes, achieving 99.9% uptime SLA for payment processing systems

Save Water LTD

Remote, United Kingdom
Backend Engineer
Mar 2019 – May 2021

Modernized legacy financial application into cloud-native microservices architecture serving 50,000+ users.

  • Migrated Symfony monolith to Laravel microservices, improving financial transaction throughput by 200% and reducing response times from 2s to 400ms
  • Implemented TDD/BDD methodology achieving 85% test coverage for critical financial calculations, preventing calculation errors
  • Automated financial reporting infrastructure with AWS and Terraform, eliminating 20 hours of manual monthly reporting work

Iris Worldwide

Munich, Germany (Hybrid/Remote)
Lead Developer & Engineering Manager
Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

Led technical delivery of high-traffic digital campaigns with integrated financial analytics for Fortune 500 clients.

  • Managed distributed team of 12 engineers delivering financial analytics integration for 2,000,000+ monthly users across 25 campaigns
  • Architected campaign systems with real-time financial performance tracking, processing 500,000+ daily financial events
  • Engineered Salesforce CRM integration for financial campaign ROI analysis and reporting, enabling data-driven decisions across 50+ marketing campaigns with real-time insights for 25+ stakeholders

Projects

Laravel Mail - Financial Communications Platform

laravelmail.com
Founder, Lead Developer
Jan 2024 – Nov 2025
Multi-channel email marketing and financial workflow automation SaaS platform with advanced analytics, serving 500+ enterprises and processing 1,000,000+ monthly communications.
  • Built secure financial notification system for transaction alerts and payment reminders, reaching 95% delivery rate across 10+ channels
  • Integrated payment analytics and campaign ROI tracking, enabling customers to measure financial impact of each campaign with detailed reporting
  • Engineered secure financial data handling for PCI compliance requirements, achieving SOC2 Type II certification
Financial Communications Laravel SaaS Payment Notifications Workflow Automation Financial Analytics Multi-channel Delivery Enterprise Scale

Education

Spiru Haret University

www.spiruharet.ro/en
Bachelor, Information Technology
Jun 2011 – Jan 2014
Overall GPA: 8.7

Skills

Laravel & PHP Ecosystem

Expert

15+ years specializing in Laravel architecture, financial systems, and enterprise-scale PHP applications with focus on high-performance systems.

Laravel 8-12 PHP 8+ Event Sourcing Domain-Driven Design Microservices API Development Payment Processing Financial Systems Performance Optimization Security Hardening

Fintech & Financial Technologies

Expert

Extensive experience in financial systems, payment processing, and regulatory-compliant fintech development with proven track record in compliance and security.

Payment Gateways (Stripe, PayPal) PCI Compliance Financial APIs Accounting Integration Debt Management Systems Financial Reporting Xero API Transaction Processing Regulatory Compliance Financial Data Security

Cloud & DevOps

Advanced

Cloud-native development with focus on financial system reliability, security, and scalability across multi-region deployments.

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS) Docker & Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Pipelines Financial System Security High Availability Disaster Recovery Auto-scaling Infrastructure as Code Monitoring & Logging

Data & Architecture

Advanced

Financial data modeling, event-driven architecture, and scalable system design with emphasis on maintainability and performance.

Microservices Architecture Event-Driven Systems Redis RabbitMQ MySQL Optimization Financial Data Modeling System Architecture Database Design Query Optimization Caching Strategies

Languages

English

Professional

Italian

Intermediate

Romanian

Native