Damián Ladiani

Laravel Developer
PHP Developer

About me

PHP/Laravel developer with over 10 years of experience creating efficient solutions for national projects. Passionate about backend development, yet comfortable handling frontend challenges when needed. I’m seeking remote opportunities to leverage my Laravel expertise, collaborate with global teams, and continue to grow professionally.

  • Age 37
  • Country Argentina
  • Address Vicente López
  • e-mail damianladiani@gmail.com
  • Phone (+54) 15 58140669

What I Do

Laravel

Laravel

Laravel developer since 2013 with 9+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable web applications. Expert in:

  • Eloquent ORM for complex database modeling and performance tuning.
  • Blade templating and component-driven UIs.
  • Custom facades and service providers to decouple logic.
  • Form Requests for clean, reusable validation rules.
  • PHPUnit and Pest tests to ensure code quality.
  • Notifications, Mailables and Queues for asynchronous workflows.
  • Middleware and policies for robust security and authorization.
  • RESTful API development with Resource Controllers, API Resources, JSON serialization, versioning, rate limiting and caching.
    • Javascript

    Javascript

    JavaScript developer with 10+ years of experience crafting dynamic, user‑friendly front ends. Expert in

  • Vanilla JS: Lightweight DOM manipulation, custom event systems and performance‑driven scripting
  • Vue.js: Component architecture, Composition API, Vuex state management and Vue Router for SPAs.
  • jQuery: Legacy codebases—plugin development, migration planning and progressive refactoring.
  • Alpine.js: Progressive interactivity inside Blade templates and minimal‑overhead UI enhancements.
  • Responsive & Accessible UI: Semantic HTML, keyboard navigation and mobile‑first layouts.
    • PHP

    PHP

    PHP developer since 2008 with 16+ years of experience delivering high‑performance backend systems. Expert in:

  • Core PHP & OOP: Namespaces, Traits, SPL, Generators, Closures and SOLID design patterns.
  • Legacy migration & refactoring: Migrated and refactored a 200k‑line PHP 5.1 codebase to PHP 7/8, eliminating deprecation warnings and boosting throughput.
  • Modern language features: Typed properties, union types, Attributes and JIT optimizations introduced in PHP 8.x.
  • Dependency management & standards: Composer packages, semantic versioning, PSR‑4 autoloading, PSR‑12 coding style and PSR‑7/PSR‑17 HTTP interfaces.
  • Testing: PHPUnit, Mockery, Pest, Behat and Codeception for unit, functional and acceptance testing.
    • Complementary skills

    Complementary skills

    Comprehensive development toolkit with many years of experience leveraging:

  • Git & version control: CLI mastery, Git Flow and trunk‑based workflows, pull requests and conflict resolution
  • HTML5 & semantic markup: Accessible, SEO‑friendly structure, responsive images and multimedia elements
  • CSS3 & responsive design: Flexbox, Grid, animations, custom properties
  • Bootstrap (v4/5): Themed components, utility classes and grid system
  • Linux & shell scripting: Ubuntu/CentOS sysadmin, Bash scripting, package management (apt/yum) and SSH
  • Docker & containerization: Multi‑stage Dockerfiles and Docker Compose for microservices

    • Resume

    Education

    2023 - Forever
    Laraveldaily

    Self-Taught

    2019 - Forever
    Laracasts

    Self-Taught

    2016 - Forever
    Platzi

    Self-Taught

    2015 - Now
    English

    I have been studying English for 10 years, and my goal this year is to take the FCE exam.

    2011 - 2013
    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)

    Technical superior in Computer Science

    2008 - 2011
    Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)

    Technical superior in Programming

    Experience

    2009 - Now

    Freelance Developer

    Programmer of PHP systems, pages and APIs, some projects individually and others with friends, for different purposes. In the past, I developed a car insurance system, another one for an ice cream shop, and recently I have been developing a reverse auction platform.

    2019 - Now
    Metrotel

    Senior Web Developer

    As a Programmer Analyst on the Dispo platform, I oversee core modules for sales‑opportunity tracking, product catalog management and company record keeping, ensuring data integrity and smooth operations. I also lead Laravel code reviews—championing PSR standards, design patterns and clean architecture—to support our ongoing migration, boost maintainability and slash post‑deployment issues.

    2013 - 2019
    Ministry of Security

    Semi Senior Web Developer

    Programmer analyst developing some projects, principally in laravel. Developer frontend with CSS3 and HTML5, applying libraries like JQuery, Vue.js or bootstrap.

    2011 - 2013
    Ministry of Defense

    Semi Senior Web Developer

    Programmer of web systems with backend in PHP and databases with mysql.

    2006 - 2011
    Argentinian Army

    Junior Web Developer

    Programmer of a logistic system of Argentinian Army. During the last months, chief of the developer team.

    Skills

    Laravel

    90%

    PHP

    90%

    Javascript

    80%

    HTML/CSS3

    80%

    MySql

    80%

    Git

    80%

    English Level

    80%

    Web Services API

    70%

    TDD

    70%

    Bootstrap

    60%

    Linux

    50%

    Vue.js

    50%

    Docker

    40%

    Redis

    40%

    Livewire

    30%

    Pest

    30%

    Filament

    30%

    Tailwind

    30%

    Inertia.js

    30%

    Other Knowledge

    • JQuery
    • Responsive Design
    • SOLID
    • Eloquent
    • Queues
    • Blade
    • Cron

    Portfolio

    Wadaboo
    Code

    Wadaboo
    coinsavings
    Code

    coinsavings
    Wadapay
    Code

    Wadapay
    skills
    Code

    skills
    cryptolivewire
    Code

    cryptolivewire
    damianladiani2.com
    Code

    damianladiani2.com

    Contact

    Buenos Aires - Argentina

    damianladiani@gmail.com

    Freelance available

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