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About

Who I am, and what I build

Muntaser Muttaqi · moon-TAH-ser moo-TAH-kee · 6 years · Feni (UTC+6)

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.

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Experience

Roles, in reverse

Lead Web Engineer

Gymscanner

Aug 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 Technology

Feb 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

Fiverr

Apr 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

Skills and proficiency

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 I maintain, patches I have landed

iammuttaqi/filament-fakester

author

One-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
RepositoryPackagist

iammuttaqi/al-quran

author

A 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
Repository

iammuttaqi/discord-bot-starter-nodejs

author

A 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.

Repository

Education

Where I studied

Northern University Bangladesh

BSc · Computer Science and Engineering

Aug 2020 — Sept 2024 · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Final project: Aurora: verifying product authenticity through per-unit serial numbers and a QR-backed chain of custody

Data Structures and AlgorithmsDatabase Management SystemsObject-Oriented ProgrammingOperating SystemsComputer NetworksSoftware Engineering

Feni Computer Institute

Diploma In Engineering · Computer Science and Technology

Aug 2014 — Jan 2019 · Feni, Bangladesh

Final project: A multi-vendor e-commerce platform — seller accounts, per-seller catalogues and a shared checkout

Structured Programming in CDigital ElectronicsMicroprocessor and Assembly LanguageData Communication and Computer NetworkingComputer Peripherals and InterfacingWeb Design and DevelopmentSystem Analysis and Design

Resume

The whole thing, on two pages

Last updated 2 Aug 2026.

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