Esmatullah Arifi
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Colchester, United Kingdom
Toptal member since October 18, 2021
Esmatullah has eight years of experience as a full-stack web developer. He has worked both independently and as part of a team. His expertise lies in application development within various domains such as finance, commerce, education, and community development. Esmatullah specializes in Laravel, PHP, C#, ASP.NET Core, Vue, React, and integrating 3rd-party APIs into applications.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Windows, Linux, PhpStorm, MAMP, XAMPP, Microsoft Visual Studio, REST API Clients, GitHub, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...web app I've developed is the online portal for a university, enabling over 200 teachers and 2,500+ students to connect during the lockdown.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer
VJ Technology Limited
- Created a user-friendly online eCommerce platform that lets many sellers set up unique store spaces, helping them stand out and manage easily.
- Crafted thorough tests for every app feature, ensuring smooth updates and bug-free enhancements ahead.
- Designed the app and database for easy code reuse, clear organization, no data repeats, and reliable data accuracy.
PHP Developer
Glencadia Corporation
- Overhauled the reservation system for a dog camp, rectifying extensive payment and confirmation glitches.
- Engineered a new system with advanced reservation functionalities, including modular per-night rate calculation and seamless integration with Stripe for instant payment confirmation.
- Implemented an intuitive availability calendar, enabling administrators to selectively allow pet stays based on customer types.
- Introduced tour booking and comprehensive services management features, resulting in a rapid increase in reservation and payment volumes within days.
- Created a user-friendly dashboard that empowers administrators to easily set prices and define rules, streamlining the process of managing and adjusting rates for the dog camp.
- Implemented standardized email templates and a robust email delivery tracking system to facilitate effective communication, ensuring reliable and organized correspondence with pet owners and stakeholders.
- Developed numerous other cutting-edge features, resulting in a substantial boost to the efficiency and effectiveness of the reservation and payment processes at the dog camp.
Lead PHP/Laravel Developer
OGUR LLC
- Developed a robust blue-collar job portal application, resulting in a significant increase in job listings and a growing user base within the first month of launch.
- Led a team of three developers, improving code quality by 20% and reducing bug count by 15% through regular code reviews and technical guidance.
- Managed server infrastructure, optimizing resource allocation and implementing auto-scaling, resulting in a 40% reduction in server costs and ensuring 99.9% application uptime.
- Implemented efficient CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by 30% and enabling seamless integration and continuous delivery of new features.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, delivering high-quality features on time and within budget and contributing to project planning and strategy discussions with innovative ideas and insights.
Back-end Developer (PHP and Laravel)
HitPay Payment Solutions
- Integrated an eCommerce CMS and accounting software into the HitPay system, incorporating platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, and NetSuite.
- Implemented the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool using Singer, enhancing data processing and management capabilities within the system.
- Enabled seamless connectivity between various eCommerce and accounting platforms, improving efficiency and streamlining data transfer and synchronization processes for the HitPay system.
Full-stack Developer
CauseLabs
- Developed a reconciliation script for donations between Salesforce API and Stripe API for an enterprise donation platform, which reduced the process duration from over four hours to seconds and was completely automated as background jobs.
- Localized the React application with a WordPress back end using WPML, which helped the product owner have a single codebase for multiple regions.
- Developed 10+ analytical graphs and calculations for health software, which provided a great demonstration of data for any purpose usage.
MIS Specialist
Independent Directorate of Local Governance
- Integrated the ODK platform with the project MIS and real-time synchronization of the received surveys. This helped decrease the time of previous manual data entry from 4-5 days to one day minus the manual entry.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using GitHub Issues and GitHub projects.
- Developed time-range complex automated reports, which reduced manual work by 100% and helped senior management with decision making.
- Delivered training sessions on MIS system code, database schema structure, and project workflow to team members, which accelerated the tasks' completion by 30%.
- Created several new modules and functionalities into MIS as needed, preventing delays in related tasks in the field and meeting deadlines by over 90%.
- Integrated the ERP system with project MIS for data exchange, which helped staff access the data easily.
- Handled dozens of data transfers between Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL and vice-versa during my assignment.
Senior Web Developer
Dawat University
- Developed an attendance module that monitors the students' attendance daily and automates students' enrollment for exam and attendance scores, reducing hours of work to seconds.
- Checked Git pull requests for code quality, performance, and algorithm, which minimized errors and performance issues in production.
- Integrated video conferencing to the system for online classes, which helped the university keep the classes going during the pandemic.
- Transferred the old system (MS Excel) based data to MySQL with 100% accuracy and integrity.
- Tracked and fixed bugs using GitHub Issues and GitHub projects.
- Guided and technically coached the newly recruited developers in the app's application technologies and coding standards. All module code is 100% identical and can be easily debugged.
Full-stack Web Developer
Freelance
- Built 10+ CMS websites with full admin dashboard and analytics.
- Developed more than five portfolio websites in different domains.
- Made an app for warehouse stock and sales and helped the management of the business save costs and time.
Database Developer
Dawat University
- Developed a management system with five modules to cover the functions of all departments in the university.
- Transferred all old format physical data to the newly developed system with 99% accuracy and integrity.
- Automated the gradings and result announcements, which reduced the time from more than a week to one day.
- Integrated MikroTik RouterBOARD with the system for better security and access control.
Experience
Banking App for a Currency Exchange Business
Tourism Package Booking App
University Learning Management System
API Web App for ODK
Project MIS for Citizens' Charter Nationality Program
Booking App for a Wedding Hall
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Rana University - Kabul, Afghanistan
Certifications
HIPAA Awareness for Business Associates
HIPAATraining.com
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Vue, React, JSON API, Vuex, REST APIs, Stripe, jQuery DataTables, Stripe API, Salesforce API, Node.js
Tools
PhpStorm, MAMP, Microsoft Visual Studio, Android Studio, Git, GitHub, Plesk, Parallels Plesk Panel, Vue CLI, Bitbucket, GitLab, DataTables, Microsoft Access, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Cron, Jira, Stripe Checkout, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, Figma
Languages
PHP, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, HTML5, PHP 7, PHP 5, Stored Procedure, C#.NET, PHP 4, PHP 8, TypeScript, GraphQL, Java
Frameworks
ASP.NET Core MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, Laravel, Bootstrap, ASP.NET Core, Angular, ASP.NET, CodeIgniter, ASP.NET MVC, Bootstrap 3+, Vuetify, .NET, .NET 5, .NET Core, Vanilla JS, Laravel Livewire, Material UI, OAuth 2, Tailwind CSS
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), REST, MVC Design, REST API Architecture, Database Design, Microservices, ETL, DevOps, Unit Testing, HIPAA Compliance, Design Patterns
Platforms
MacOS, Windows, Linux, XAMPP, Google Chrome, Amazon EC2, cPanel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), LAMP, Twilio, Heroku, Azure, Ubuntu, WordPress, Docker
Storage
Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Database Administration (DBA), MariaDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SQL Stored Procedures, JSON, MySQLi, Relational Databases, Redis
Other
Software Engineering, Data Structures, Management Information Systems (MIS), REST API Clients, ODK, Full-stack, APIs, JSON REST APIs, Git Repo, Back-end, Front-end, Technical Leadership, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Ajax, API Design, Integration, API Integration, Amazon Route 53, Web Development, Background Jobs, Webhooks, DocuSign, Startups, Blade Templates, Full-stack Development, Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), Software Project Management, User Experience (UX), Task Analysis, Headless Software, SDKs, OAuth, Architecture, Leadership, Singer ETL, ETL Tools, Cloud, Containers, HIPAA Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, eCommerce
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