Damián Ladiani

Laravel Developer
PHP Developer

About me

PHP/Laravel developer with 10+ years of experience building production systems, from government platforms to fintech integrations. These days I pair deep backend expertise with AI-directed development — using tools like Claude Code to plan, implement and review code faster, while staying accountable for architecture and quality. Comfortable across the stack when needed. Looking for remote opportunities to bring that combination to a global team.

  • Age 38
  • 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.
    • AI-Directed Development

    AI-Directed Development

    Day-to-day practitioner of AI-assisted development, directing coding agents like Claude Code to plan, build and ship production code faster. Applying it at Metrotel and across personal/freelance projects. Expert in:

  • Directing AI coding agents (Claude Code) end-to-end: breaking down requirements, guiding implementation, and reviewing the result against production standards.
  • Keeping quality gates in place — tests, code review, PSR/SOLID conventions — regardless of how the code was drafted.
  • Prompt-driven workflows for refactors, migrations and boilerplate, freeing up time for architecture and business logic.
  • Applying 15+ years of software judgment to catch what AI gets wrong before it ships.

    • Resume

    Education

    2023 - Forever
    Laraveldaily

    Self-Taught

    2019 - Forever
    Laracasts

    Self-Taught

    2016 - Forever
    Platzi

    Self-Taught

    2015 - Now
    English

    Ongoing self-study focused on professional and technical communication for remote/international teams.

    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

    Independent PHP/Laravel developer since 2009, building systems, sites and APIs on my own and with friends. Past projects include a car insurance system and an ice cream shop's management system. More recently, I built a Laravel + Vue integration that connects to a client's MercadoPago account and automatically syncs incoming and outgoing transfers, replacing a manual process where the business owner had to check by hand whether each transfer had gone through. I'm currently building edutimetable, a scheduling platform for educational institutions with a standout feature: before confirming a course's schedule change, it previews which students and teachers would end up with conflicts.

    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. I've also brought AI-directed development into the team's workflow, using Claude Code to move faster on features and refactors while keeping the same quality bar.

    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%

    AI-Assisted Development

    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

    Wadaboo

    A reverse-auction marketplace built with a small team: buyers post what they want to buy and sellers compete to offer the best price. We shipped a complete, working MVP — the project stalled at the funding stage, when we couldn't find investors to launch it commercially.

    • Laravel
    • Vue.js
    • Bootstrap
    Coinsavings
    Code

    Coinsavings

    A personal tool to track my crypto holdings and see their value in USD/ARS at a glance — built to make sense of savings across multiple coins in Argentina's economy.

    • Laravel
    • Filament
    • Guzzle
    damianladiani2.com
    Code

    damianladiani2.com

    This site. Built with Laravel and Livewire, containerized with Docker and routed through Traefik — the codebase you're browsing right now.

    • Laravel
    • Livewire
    • Docker
    skills
    Code

    skills

    A small practice project to track a team's skills — built to get hands-on with Livewire and Redis outside of work.

    • Laravel
    • Livewire
    • Redis
    cryptolivewire
    Code

    cryptolivewire

    A practice project pulling live crypto prices from the CoinGecko API into a reactive Livewire table — built to get comfortable with real-time UI updates without writing custom JavaScript.

    • Laravel
    • Livewire
    • CoinGecko API

    Contact

    Buenos Aires - Argentina

    damianladiani@gmail.com

    Freelance available

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