Hi, I’m Bagus Hidayat

Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel) with 8+ years of experience building, migrating, and stabilizing production systems. Specialized in backend architecture, performance optimization, and long-term maintainability for real-world, high-traffic applications.

Laravel Architecture

Production Systems

System Migration

Performance & Scaling

Queue & Async Jobs

API Design

System Design

API & Performance

About Me

I’m a backend-focused software engineer with 8+ years of experience working across enterprise systems, agencies, and remote international teams. My core strength lies in building and maintaining Laravel-based systems that survive real production pressure — legacy code, framework upgrades, performance bottlenecks, and evolving business needs.

Experience

SoftwareSeni — Laravel Developer

Oct 2021 – Present

Led Laravel 8 → 10 migration for production systems with zero downtime
Redesigned backend architecture to improve response time by ~30%
Owned backend stability, data integrity, and backward compatibility
Worked directly with international clients to translate business needs into backend solutions

SPE Solution — Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Oct 2021

Built resilient backend systems
Optimized database queries and load times

PT. Sinergi Informatika Semen Indonesia — Web Developer

Oct 2016 – Nov 2018

Enterprise internal & public-facing systems
Security hardening and QA leadership

How I Work as a Senior Backend Engineer

Design for maintainability before scale

Prefer queue-first for long-running processes

Optimize database access before adding infrastructure

Treat framework upgrades as production risks

Separate domain logic from framework code

Favor explicit trade-offs over hidden complexity

Core Technical Skills

Laravel / Lumen

PHP (7.x – 8.x)

MySQL

MongoDB

Queue & Background Jobs

API Design

System Migration

CI/CD & Automation

Future Focus & Skill Growth

Beyond day-to-day backend delivery, I actively invest in skills that improve system reliability, refactoring safety, and long-term maintainability.

Automation Testing (Playwright)

E2E & Integration Test Design

Regression Safety for Backend Changes

CI-friendly Test Pipelines

UI Fundamentals (Pure Vanilla JS)

Progressive Enhancement

My goal is to combine strong backend architecture with reliable automation testing and lightweight UI practices, enabling safer deployments and higher confidence during system evolution.