Hi, I'm Mehrab 👋
a creative engineer who loves building fast, clean, and well-designed products
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About

I started coding when I was 11, and since then I've pretty much spent every day of my life building software. From tiny startups of my own to contract gigs for others, I've always been in build mode.

Work Experience

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ForgeLink Software

Jan 2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
  • Led development and timely deployment of multiple SaaS platforms, consistently meeting tight deadlines. Mentored and managed a team of Laravel developers, guiding them in building AI-powered applications using Laravel, Livewire, React, and Vue.js.
  • Architected diverse applications, including SaaS platforms for email inboxes optimized for cold email campaigns, resulting in a 30% increase in email open rates.
  • Successfully integrated full-stack technologies like Laravel, Livewire, React, and Vue.js across diverse projects to ensure seamless functionality and performance.
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Kastro

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Full-stack Developer
  • Developed a robust Backend using Laravel with Octane, achieving 99.9% uptime and improving server response times by 70%.
  • Developed a highly responsive chat widget using React, employing advanced caching and revalidation techniques that improved user experience and increased performance metrics by 35%.
  • Architected a semi-microservices infrastructure by leveraging Soketi as a standalone WebSocket server, ensuring seamless communication between backend, frontend, and WebSocket servers across different environments, improving system scalability.
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Zagreus Developers

Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Full-stack Developer
  • Created a modular & open-source Laravel Boilerplate, to help the agency build products on one code base, with the ability to reuse the same modules, on other projects, resulting in the creation of different SaaS applications, in the 3 years of working there.
  • Engineered scalable RESTful APIs using Laravel Octane for a music streaming app that handles a thousand requests per second, improving data retrieval speed by 30% and supporting seamless integration with front-end interfaces.
  • Used Docker to containerize our laravel applications, and ensure a zero-downtime deployment on a single server.

Education

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Islamic Azad University

2021 - 2025
Bachelor's Degree of Computer Science (BCS)

Skills

Typescript
React
Next.js
Node.js
PHP
Laravel
Python
Postgres
Docker

Check out my latest work

Here are some of cool products that I've worked on

Secondary Domains

Secondary Domains

SecondaryDomains automates the creation of email accounts for effective cold outreach. We ensure high deliverability, handling everything from domain registration to DNS setup, so you can reach more customers easily.
Laravel
Livewire
Queues
Redis
Mailhog
Stripe
Cloudflare Workers
Website
Kastro AI

Kastro AI

Kastro helps indie hackers manage their chats easily. It organizes conversations, suggests helpful articles, and answers common questions with a smart chatbot. Focus on what matters most!
Laravel
Livewire
React
Next.js
Redis
Queues
AI
Vector Database
Soketi
Laravel Echo
Stripe
Website
OnSite Quotes

OnSite Quotes

Get fast quotes for your field service business with OnSite Qoutes. with an advanced AI Assitant that chats with you, asks questions, and provides a ready-to-send quote before you leave the job site.
Laravel
VueJS
Vector Database
AI
Redis
Stripe
Website
Melodigram

Melodigram

I built the backend of Melodigram, focusing on fast APIs with Laravel Octane, smart search with ElasticSearch, and an audio pipeline using FFmpeg.
Laravel
Elastic Search
FFmpeg
Livewire
Redis
OpenSwoole
Docker
Google Play

Blog

Sometimes I write, but mostly to document my learnings

Starting an Open-Source Project with DDD in Laravel: Folder Structure

Part 1 of my Laravel + DDD series: Folder Structure

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