Punyapal Shah
// Laravel Engineer • Open Source Maintainer • Technical Content Creator
Professional Summary
Laravel Engineer building products, developer tooling, and open source software for the Laravel ecosystem.
Core Team member at Pinkary and Pest, collaborator at panphp, founder of Laravel Artisans, author and maintainer of Pest's official PHPStan and Rector plugins, and maintainer of laravel-extended-relationships and other open source tools used by Laravel developers.
Engineering Expertise
Laravel, PHP, Livewire, Filament, Blade, Inertia.js, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS
Multi-tenancy, Queues, Task Scheduling, Caching, WebSockets, Event Broadcasting
Pest, PHPUnit, PHPStan, Rector, Laravel Pint, Static Analysis, Automated Refactoring, Testing Architecture, AI Agent Workflows
Laravel Cloud, Laravel Forge, AWS EC2, Amazon S3, Cloudflare
Laravel Prism, OpenAI, Dialpad, Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal, Twilio
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Eloquent ORM
Professional Experience
Freelance, Senior Laravel Engineer
Present– Present
- Developed and shipped features for a multi-tenant SaaS platform with Livewire, Filament, and feature flags. Scaled test coverage from 0% to 100% using Pest.
- Built an AI data extraction tool that takes unstructured input, converts it into structured records, and cuts out manual data entry work.
- Delivered ecommerce, booking, and SaaS platforms with TALL stack and Filament. Integrated PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, Twilio SMS, and Dialpad VoIP.
- Improved application performance by eliminating N+1 queries, optimizing database indexes, and introducing query caching.
- Upgraded Laravel projects from 5.x and 7.x to 11.x and 12.x for multiple clients, including Livewire, Filament, and PHP version upgrades.
- Audited a domain-driven Laravel application and designed testing architecture around its existing structure, established project-specific Pest conventions, upgraded the suite to Pest 5, integrated Pest's PHPStan and Rector plugins, and built AI agent skills that encode the application's architecture and testing patterns.
ShubhKey Infotech LLP, Lead Engineer
2.2 years–
- Migrated a legacy codebase to Laravel, rewrote the REST APIs, and set code standards the whole team followed.
- Built a full-scale freelance marketplace end to end, including real-time chat, contracts, billing, and activity monitoring using WebSockets and the TALL stack.
- Built a dynamic survey tool for cancer patients using Filament, with question logic that changes based on each patient's answers.
- Mentored junior developers on Laravel patterns, code review, and writing tests.
- Built a caption API for Caption X using Core PHP with custom segment-based routing. Integrated webhooks and external APIs to fetch media and generate SRT/VTT caption files.
Maven InfoTech, Sr. Full Stack Developer
6 months–
- 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.
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Selected Engineering Work
Representative engineering work spanning production systems, open source contributions, enterprise architecture, and intelligent automation.
Pinkary
Core TeamCore 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.
Open Source
Core Team
- › Pinkary : Core team member contributing to an open-source Laravel social platform
- › Pest: Core Team member contributing across the core framework and plugin ecosystem, with significant work on Browser, PHPStan, Rector, and other Pest plugins
- › panphp/pan: Collaborator on a lightweight PHP analytics library that tracks page impressions, clicks, and interactions without any third-party service
Maintainer
- › pest-plugin-rector : Author and maintainer of Pest's official Rector plugin (pest-plugin-rector). Automates PHPUnit-to-Pest migration and enforces Pest-native code quality with Rector rules
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pest-plugin-phpstan
: Author and maintainer of Pest's official PHPStan plugin (pest-plugin-phpstan). Extends PHPStan to understand Pest test closures, providing type-safe expectations,
$thisbinding, and dedicated static analysis rules - › laravel-extended-relationships : Adds Eloquent relationship patterns that Laravel doesn't support out of the box
- › livewire-chat-app : A working real-time chat app built with Livewire 3 and Laravel Reverb
- › laravel-auth-jobs : Passes the authenticated user into queued Jobs automatically, without manual plumbing
- › laravel-extended-commands : Fills gaps in Laravel's Artisan command set for everyday development tasks
- › basic-crud : Production-level Laravel patterns for developers learning best practices
Community
- › Laravel Artisans Founder: Started Laravel Artisans, a community of more than 5,000 developers across multiple platforms.
- › Laravel Ahmedabad: Runs local Laravel meetups in Ahmedabad and helps developers get started with the framework
- › 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.
Education History
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology
–U.V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University
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