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Punyapal Shah, Laravel Engineer and Open Source Maintainer

Punyapal Shah

// Laravel Engineer • Open Source Maintainer • Technical Content Creator

mrpunyapal@gmail.com mrpunyapal.dev GitHub LinkedIn Twitter Ahmedabad, India

Professional Summary

Laravel Engineer building production applications, developer tooling, and open-source software for the PHP and Laravel ecosystems. Core Team member at Pest and Pinkary, collaborator on panphp, and founder of Laravel Artisans. Author and maintainer of Pest's official PHPStan and Rector plugins. Maintainer of Laravel packages and contributor to 100+ open-source repositories.

Engineering Expertise

Laravel Ecosystem

Laravel, PHP, Livewire, Filament, Blade, Inertia.js, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS

Architecture & Scalability

Multi-tenancy, Queues, Task Scheduling, Caching, WebSockets, Event Broadcasting

Developer Experience

Pest, PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, Laravel Pint, Static Analysis, Automated Refactoring, Testing Architecture, AI Agent Workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure

Laravel Cloud, Laravel Forge, AWS EC2, Amazon S3, Cloudflare

AI & Integrations

Laravel Prism, OpenAI, Dialpad, Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal, Twilio

Data & Persistence

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Eloquent ORM

Professional Experience

Freelance, Senior Laravel Engineer

Present

– Present

  • Engineered and shipped features for production multi-tenant SaaS platforms, ecommerce applications, and booking engines using the TALL stack and Filament, integrating payment gateways including Stripe, PayPal, and Razorpay, and communication services including Twilio and Dialpad.
  • Upgraded legacy Laravel applications from 5.x and 7.x up to 11.x and 12.x, modernizing dependencies, Livewire, Filament, and PHP versions while maintaining application stability.
  • Designed and implemented testing architectures around existing applications using Pest and PHPUnit, expanding test coverage from 0% to 100% on mission-critical workflows.
  • Audited domain-driven Laravel codebases and established static analysis with PHPStan, automated refactoring with Rector, and coding standards to improve maintainability.
  • Optimized application performance and database responsiveness by diagnosing N+1 queries, optimizing database indexes, and implementing query caching strategies.
  • Built custom AI data extraction tooling leveraging LLM workflows to convert unstructured input into structured records and reduce manual data entry.

ShubhKey Infotech LLP, Lead Engineer

2.2 years

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  • Led engineering and developed a full-scale freelance marketplace end to end, building real-time messaging, contract management, billing, and activity monitoring using WebSockets and the TALL stack.
  • Migrated legacy codebases to modern Laravel architecture, refactored REST APIs, and established standardized engineering practices across the development team.
  • Built a dynamic survey platform for medical patients using Filament, featuring custom question logic that adapts based on conditional patient responses.
  • Mentored junior engineers on Laravel design patterns, code review standards, static analysis, and automated testing best practices.

Maven InfoTech, Sr. Full Stack Developer

6 months

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  • Engineered a multi-carrier shipping and logistics platform featuring automated ZIP code zone mapping, carrier selection algorithms, deliverability validation, and real-time shipping label PDF generation.
  • Migrated legacy Drupal and CorePHP applications to modern Laravel architecture for a yacht charter booking platform, introducing multi-lingual date-range booking and dynamic pricing while boosting performance by 80%+.
  • Integrated third-party APIs including DocuSign (webhooks & signature request workflows), Stripe & digital wallet payments, WhatsApp Business queued messaging broadcasts, and Facebook Graph API.
  • Built background queue processing and cron automation for late-fee calculations, attendance tracking, bulk communications, and editorial workflow tooling across client systems.

Want to know about past experience?

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Selected Engineering Work

Representative engineering work spanning production systems, open source contributions, enterprise architecture, and intelligent automation.

Pinkary

Core Team

Core Team member contributing across Pinkary's Laravel stack by designing and shipping production features, reviewing community contributions, improving architecture, and maintaining code quality. Migrated production infrastructure from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud, SQLite to MySQL, and local storage to Amazon S3 while maintaining application availability and deployment reliability.

Multi-Tenant Cloud Services Platform

Developed and shipped features for a production multi-tenant cloud platform, including automated DNS discovery for domains, mailstores, and Microsoft tenants. Built asynchronous processing pipelines, real-time WebSocket communication, complex Livewire and Filament interfaces, comprehensive Pest test coverage, and PHPStan Level 8 static analysis to ensure scalability and long-term maintainability.

Freelance Marketplace Platform

Led the end-to-end development of a full-scale freelance marketplace over two years, building nearly all major product systems across consultant discovery, proposals, agency and client teams, hourly and fixed-price contracts, real-time communication, activity monitoring, automated billing, wallets, tax workflows, notifications, and administration. Built complex role-based workflows, contract lifecycle management, scheduled billing, WebSocket-powered chat, and desktop activity tracking comparable to mature freelance platforms.

Traffic Control Equipment Booking Platform

Developed and shipped features for an enterprise equipment booking platform, including its complex multi-asset booking model. Integrated Dialpad APIs and Laravel Prism to automate call summarization and structured booking-data extraction while modernizing the codebase with Rector, Pint, and PHPStan to improve maintainability and developer productivity.

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Open Source

Core Team

  • › Pest: Core Team member contributing across the core testing framework and plugin ecosystem.
  • › Pinkary: Core team member contributing to an open-source Laravel social platform.
  • › panphp/pan: Collaborator on a lightweight PHP product analytics library.

Maintainer

Community

  • › Laravel Artisans: Founder of a 5,000+ developer community across multiple developer platforms.
  • › Laravel Ahmedabad: Organizer running local Laravel engineering meetups in Ahmedabad.
  • › Laracon India 2025: Volunteer supporting conference operations.
  • › Content Creator: Shares Laravel tips, open source updates, and educational content across YouTube and social platforms, helping developers stay up to date with the Laravel ecosystem.

Speaking Engagements

Write code that can fix itself / Refactor Laravel with RectorPHP

Laracon India, Laravel Bangalore, Laravel Moris

How to use RectorPHP to automate repetitive refactors and keep code consistent across a Laravel project.

Types in PHP at a Glance with PHPStan

Laravel Ahmedabad, Laravel Indore, Laravel Kozhikode

A hands-on intro to PHP type safety with PHPStan, covering levels, custom rules, and how to use it in a Laravel project.

From Zero to Tested: Laravel + PestPHP

Laravel Ahmedabad

A practical guide to testing in Laravel with PestPHP. Write expressive tests and ship with fewer bugs.

Broadcasting in Laravel

Laravel Ahmedabad

How Laravel's broadcasting system works, covering Pusher, Reverb, and building real-time features with Livewire.

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Education History

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

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U.V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University

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