LiveAug 2021 — present
Gymscanner
Global platform for booking gym memberships, tourist passes and personal training sessions across 100+ cities.
LaravelLivewireFilamentVueInertia +4
Open to offers
Muntaser Muttaqi
Software Engineer
I build web applications in Laravel, and I ship them.
Six years of building web applications in Laravel — five of them leading the web stack at Gymscanner, a global gym and trainer booking platform. Laravel and Livewire on the server, Vue and Inertia where the page needs to think for itself.
- Location
- Feni, Bangladesh
- Local time
- UTC+6
- Availability
- Remote-friendly
- Experience
- 6 years shipping
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About
Who I am, and what I build
I am a software engineer working mostly in PHP and Laravel. Since 2021 I have led web engineering at Gymscanner, a platform for booking gym memberships and personal training across a hundred-plus cities, which means I have spent five years living with my own decisions on a single product rather than handing codebases off and moving on. That is the part of the job I would recommend to anyone: you learn far more from the second year of a system than the first.
My default stack is Laravel with Livewire and Filament, Inertia and Vue when the interface earns it, Tailwind on top, MySQL underneath. I like the parts of the framework most people skip past — Eloquent relationships that model the domain instead of the tables, form requests that make invalid state unrepresentable, queues that do not lose work when a worker dies mid-job.
Outside the day job I build things and put them online. Filament Fakester is a small package on Packagist that fills form fields with sensible fake data in development. Al Quran is an ad-free reader I built for myself and then kept polishing. Most of the rest are experiments — a real-time audio monitor, a chess analyser, a handful of things that exist because I wanted to know whether they would work.
Selected work
Systems I owned, and what they cost
Case studies with the architecture decisions, the things that broke, and the numbers afterwards.
LiveJun 2023 — Jul 2026
Aurora
Product authenticity platform: manufacturers and shops get verified, every unit gets a serial number and a QR code, and buyers can check the chain themselves.
Laravel 13PHP 8.4Filament 5Livewire 4Jetstream +5
LiveMay 2026 — present
Filament Fakester
A Filament plugin that fills form fields with sensible fake data in development, one click per field.
- Packagist downloads
- 75
- Install command
- --dev
PHPLaravelFilamentPestGitHub Actions +1
LiveMar 2026 — present
Al Quran
A minimal, ad-free environment to read, study and listen to the Noble Quran.
- GitHub stars
- 8
- Trackers
- 0
TypeScriptTailwind CSSVercel
Experience
Where the years went
Lead Web Engineer
GymscannerAug 2021 — Present5 yrs 1 moFull-timeRemote (remote)
Lead the web stack for a global platform that lets people book gym memberships, tourist passes and personal training sessions across a hundred-plus cities. Laravel on the server, Livewire and Vue on the front, working with a team spread across the US, Kuwait and Romania.
- Own the web application end to end — schema, application code, interface and release
- Built the booking and listing flows used by both sides of the marketplace: people looking for a gym, and the gyms and trainers selling access
- Keep the codebase current across successive Laravel, Livewire and Filament major versions rather than letting it calcify
- Work asynchronously across a UTC-5 to UTC+6 spread, which puts the burden on written decisions rather than meetings
LaravelLivewireFilamentVueInertiaAlpine.jsTailwind CSSMySQLEloquentGit
Web Developer
Ontik TechnologyFeb 2020 — Jul 20211 yr 6 mosFull-timeGulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
First full-time engineering role. Built client web applications on a Laravel and Vue stack, in an office where the feedback loop was short and the deadlines were someone else's.
- Delivered client applications on Laravel with Vue and Blade front-ends
- Learned the framework properly — Eloquent, queues, validation, auth — on projects that had to actually work
- Moved from writing features to owning them through review, deploy and the bug reports that followed
LaravelVueBladeBootstrapMySQLjQueryGit
Freelance Web Developer
FiverrApr 2020 — Present6 yrs 5 mosFreelanceRemote (remote)
Ongoing freelance work alongside the day job. Laravel applications, Vue front-ends and the unglamorous maintenance jobs — upgrades, bug hunts and features bolted onto codebases someone else wrote.
- Scope, quote, build and hand over projects solo, including the parts that are not code
- Work directly with non-technical clients, which is its own skill and mostly consists of asking better questions
- Maintain a rating good enough that most work now arrives through repeat clients
LaravelLivewireVueTailwind CSSBootstrapMySQL
Toolkit
What I reach for
Four dots is expert; one is familiar enough to be dangerous. Years are cumulative, not consecutive.
Languages
- PHP6yExpert
- SQL6yAdvanced
- JavaScript6yAdvanced
- TypeScript2yProficient
- HTML & CSS7yAdvanced
Frameworks
- Laravel6yExpert
- Livewire4yAdvanced
- Filament3yAdvanced
- Inertia4yAdvanced
- Vue6yAdvanced
- Alpine.js4yProficient
- Nuxt2yProficient
- Tailwind CSS5yAdvanced
- Bootstrap6yAdvanced
- Pest2yProficient
Data stores
- MySQL6yAdvanced
- Eloquent ORM6yExpert
- SQLite4yProficient
Infrastructure
- GitHub Actions3yProficient
- Vercel3yProficient
- Netlify2yFamiliar
- GitHub Pages5yProficient
Tooling
- Git7yExpert
- Composer6yAdvanced
- Vite4yAdvanced
- Laravel Pint3yAdvanced
- Figma3yFamiliar
Open source
Packages and patches
8 stars and 75 installs across published packages, plus contributions upstream.
iammuttaqi/filament-fakester
authorOne-click fake data for Filament form fields in development. Puts a sparkles button next to every text input and resolves sensible values from the field name and type — `email` gets an email, `latitude` gets a coordinate, `slug` gets a slug. Hidden in production by default.
0 0 75 PHP
iammuttaqi/al-quran
authorA minimal, ad-free environment to read, study and listen to the Noble Quran. Built for myself first, then kept polishing because other people started using it.
8 0 0 TypeScript
iammuttaqi/discord-bot-starter-nodejs
authorA stripped-back Discord bot scaffold for Node.js — commands, events and token handling wired up, nothing else. Written after setting the same thing up by hand one too many times.
Open to offers
Got a backend that is starting to hurt?
Usually within 24 hours on weekdays. Tell me what is breaking and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.