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Punyapal Shah

Punyapal Shah

// Laravel Artisan & Full-Stack Developer

[email protected] mrpunyapal.dev Github Twitter Ahmedabad, India

Professional Summary

Laravel Artisan focused on building clean, maintainable applications using the TALL stack. Core team member at Pinkary and Pest v4, experienced in creating custom Filament admin panels, Livewire components, and modular Laravel architectures. I enjoy turning complex ideas into simple, scalable, developer-friendly solutions. Interested in building modern, scalable web applications and contributing to the open source ecosystem.

Technical Skills

Frontend

Blade, TailwindCSS, Alpine.js, familiar with Vue, React, Angular, and Inertia.

Backend

Laravel, Livewire, Filament, PHP, CodeIgniter, WordPress.

Database

MySQL, SQLite, familiar with Firebase and MongoDB.

DevOps / Cloud

AWS EC2 and S3, Laravel Forge, Laravel Cloud.

Other

WebSockets (Pusher, Reverb), Testing (Pest, PHPUnit), RectorPHP, PHPStan.

Latest Experience Log

Freelance — Full Stack Engineer

Current Role

July 2020 – Present

  • Delivered Laravel-based projects for international clients mainly using the TALL stack and Filament.
  • Built scalable backend systems, optimized database queries, and improved API performance.
  • Worked on ecommerce, cloud, and booking related projects.
  • Worked on a cloud app with user-facing custom Livewire components using Filament tables and forms with Filament admin and feature flags. This was a multi-tenant app.
  • Improved that app from 0% code coverage to 100% code coverage.
  • Worked on a Filament-based booking project where I implemented AI call summary and Dialpad service.
  • Worked on many types of ecommerce projects implementing PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, and other payment gateways.
  • Core team member at Pinkary and contributor to Pest v4, mainly browser testing plugin.

ShubhKey Infotech LLP — Lead Engineer

2 years

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024

  • Led Laravel projects focusing on scalability and clean architecture.
  • Mentored junior developers and enforced best coding practices.
  • Migrated legacy systems to Laravel and maintained REST APIs.
  • Built many in-house projects using TALL stack and Filament.
  • Created a car booking app where users can rent cars with Filament admin.
  • Created an Upwork alternative using TALL stack with real-time updates and chat.
  • Created a coffee beans ecommerce site with Filament admin.
  • Created a real-time quiz app like Kahoot with TALL stack.
  • Created a dynamic survey app for cancer patients with Filament forms.

Maven InfoTech — Sr. Full Stack Developer

6 months

Feb 2022 – Aug 2022

  • Integrated 3rd-party APIs (Transport, Pharmacy, Booking, Facebook Graph, etc).
  • Worked on ecommerce and booking related projects using Laravel, CodeIgniter, Vanilla PHP, and WordPress.
  • Worked on creating WordPress themes and plugins.
  • Worked on a bulk WhatsApp messaging app.
  • Worked on a medicine delivery app using many transport APIs.
  • Worked on a migration project transferring data from multiple ecommerce CMS to one centralized CMS while generating different types of CSVs and schemas.

Open Source

Maintainer

Core Team

  • › Pinkary Project - Core team member contributing to Laravel-based platform development
  • › Pest v4 - Contributor to the popular PHP testing framework, majorly on browser testing features

Community

  • › Laravel Artisans Founder - Growing community of 3,000+ developers
  • › Laravel Ahmedabad - Volunteer & Host organizing meetups and mentoring developers
  • › Laracon India 2025 - Volunteer for event operations and community engagement
  • › Laravel Certification Program - Exam Committee Member and Question Contributor
  • › Content Creator - Educational content about Laravel, Filament, and TALL stack on YouTube and social platforms

Speaking Engagements

Types in PHP at Glance with PHPStan

Laravel Ahmedabad, Laravel Indore, Laravel Kozhikode

Refactor Laravel with RectorPHP

Laravel Bangalore, Laravel Moris (Africa)

Spark Your Laravel Apps with FilamentPHP

Laravel Ahmedabad

Broadcasting in Laravel

Laravel Ahmedabad

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Education History

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Information Technology

2016 – 2020

U.V. Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University

Key Projects

Hotel Management (DotNet), Library Management (Java), Online Transport Service (JSP), Hand Gesture Helper (IoT, Python), Dustbin Near Me (IoT, Android, Firebase).

Areas of Interest

IoT, AI, Data Mining, Data Warehousing.
Favorite Subject: Data Structure.