Stefan Bogdanel

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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
+44 744 821 88 99
Essex, GB

Work

Laravel Company

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 handling 50K+ daily financial transactions
  • Implemented PCI-DSS compliant payment processing with Stripe and PayPal, reducing transaction failures by 25%
  • Designed event-driven financial workflow system using Redis and Laravel Queues, processing 10K+ background jobs daily
  • Applied Domain-Driven Design and Clean Architecture for maintainable financial services codebase
  • Achieved 90%+ test coverage with PHPUnit and Pest for critical financial operations
  • Reduced API response time by 30% through query optimization and Redis caching strategies

Debt Register LTD

Senior Laravel Developer - Fintech
May 2024 – Sep 2024

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

  • Engineered secure REST API with OAuth2/JWT authentication handling sensitive financial data
  • Integrated Xero accounting API, automating financial reconciliation and reducing manual processing by 60%
  • Implemented real-time financial reporting dashboard with 40% faster data aggregation
  • Built automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, reducing deployment errors by 70%

Avrillo LTD

Backend Architect - Financial Systems
May 2023 – Sep 2023

Architected microservice-based financial and legal document processing platform.

  • Designed Laravel microservices architecture with RabbitMQ for financial event streaming
  • Implemented AWS auto-scaling infrastructure supporting 100K+ monthly financial document processing
  • Developed NLP financial entity extraction using SpaCy and LLMs with 95% accuracy
  • Created .NET microservice for financial data integration across legacy systems

Hornby LTD

Senior Backend Developer
May 2021 – Sep 2023

Scaled e-commerce financial systems supporting global retail operations.

  • Built Laravel microservices processing £10M+ annual transactions on AWS infrastructure
  • Implemented financial event streaming with RabbitMQ for real-time inventory and payment updates
  • Containerized financial services with Docker, achieving 99.9% uptime for payment processing

Save Water LTD

Backend Engineer
Mar 2019 – May 2021

Modernized legacy financial application into cloud-native microservices architecture.

  • Migrated Symfony monolith to Laravel microservices, improving financial transaction throughput by 200%
  • Implemented TDD/BDD achieving 85% test coverage for financial calculations
  • Automated financial reporting infrastructure with AWS and Terraform

Iris Worldwide

Lead Developer & Engineering Manager
Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

Led technical delivery of high-traffic digital campaigns with integrated financial analytics.

  • Managed distributed teams delivering financial analytics integration for 2M+ monthly users
  • Architected campaign systems with real-time financial performance tracking
  • Integrated financial CRM systems for campaign ROI analysis and reporting

Projects

Laravel Mail - Financial Communications Platform

laravelmail.com
Founder, Lead Developer
Jan 2024 – Nov 2025
Multi-channel email marketing and financial workflow automation platform with advanced analytics.
  • Built financial notification system for transaction alerts and payment reminders
  • Integrated payment analytics and campaign ROI tracking
  • Implemented secure financial data handling for compliance requirements
  • Scaled to handle 1M+ monthly financial communications
Financial Communications Laravel SaaS Payment Notifications Workflow Automation Financial Analytics

Educations

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.

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

Fintech & Financial Technologies

Expert

Extensive experience in financial systems, payment processing, and regulatory-compliant fintech development.

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

Cloud & DevOps

Advanced

Cloud-native development with focus on financial system reliability, security, and scalability.

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS) Docker & Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Pipelines Financial System Security High Availability Disaster Recovery

Data & Architecture

Advanced

Financial data modeling, event-driven architecture, and scalable system design.

Microservices Architecture Event-Driven Systems Redis RabbitMQ MySQL Optimization Financial Data Modeling System Architecture

Languages

English

Professional

Italian

Intermediate

Romanian

Native