Hi, I amManinder Singh Rai

King David School

Australia

Built: School portal (Angular + Symfony) — reporting, internal and parent email, and event payment pages — plus the school's main website and hybrid infrastructure

• Designed and deployed a new school portal using Angular and Symfony, used daily by 150+ staff — for generating reports, sending emails internally and to parents, and payment pages for events during the year term.
• Secured the portal API with TOTP two-factor authentication, rate limiting, and IP- and user-level blocking.
• Implemented GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, improving release speed and reducing deployment errors.
• Integrated Veracross, Synergetic LMS and Schoolbox APIs to combine student, staff and timetable data into one interface.
• Managed the school's main website on AWS EC2, with the portal and other applications hosted on internal Kubernetes infrastructure — I was responsible for the hybrid infrastructure handling.

Go Markets

Australia

Built: MIS — the accounting and trading reporting platform, rebuilt as a React, Laravel and Node.js microservice platform

• Rebuilt MIS, the accounting and trading reporting platform, from a legacy PHP application into a secure React, Laravel and Node.js microservice platform used across multiple departments.
• Built trading activity reporting directly from MT4 and MT5 servers (trading platform API), including financial data used for ASIC reviews, based on requirements from the finance department.
• Developed applications for report generation and access control, integrating Auth0, Zoho, internal microservices and payment gateways.
• Integrated payment gateways including PayPal, Stripe, Checkout.com, Afterpay, Zip, Skrill and Worldpay.
• Improved financial reporting performance by 30% through SQL optimisation, stored procedures, triggers and indexing.
• Reduced deployment times by 50% by implementing CI/CD on AWS.
• Migrated the platform from internal servers to AWS Kubernetes in collaboration with another senior cloud engineer.
• Mentored 2 junior developers through code reviews and technical guidance.

Souped Up Solutions

Australia

Built: Catering software built with Laravel and Vue.js on a microservice architecture

• Gained experience working with catering software built with Laravel and Vue.js on a microservice architecture.
• Worked on a CakePHP project to migrate the existing catering application over to Laravel.
• Mainly adding new functionality to the app, documenting each piece in Jira so the team could refer back to it. Worked in an Agile setting.
• Used Laravel, TypeScript, Vue.js, JavaScript, Git and OOP PHP. The application was well covered with unit tests to improve the debugging process.
• Developed custom APIs for the in-house application, and kept and maintained the Postman API collections.
• Handled the workload and dealt with hot fixes where something needed fixing urgently. Worked through local, UAT, staging and production environments.
• Used SonarQube for coding standards, so the same practices were applied app-wide by every developer.
• Wrote reusable code with clear comments and instructions for other developers, backed by unit tests.
• Worked in two-week sprints with a major release every third month, plus urgent fixes as hot fixes.
• Discussed task requirements and best practice with the team and delivered tasks before the deadline.

Techno Deviser

India

Built: Client WordPress, Magento 2 and PHP builds, plus WordPress and Drupal theme and plugin work

• Delivered multiple WordPress, Magento 2 and PHP projects for agency clients.
• Improved site performance through caching and optimised database queries.
• Worked directly with clients to gather requirements and deliver tailored solutions.
• Assisted the senior developer with deployments and post-launch fixes across live client sites.
• Worked on both frontend and backend development, including customising WordPress and Drupal themes and plugins.

Infra Tech Web

India

Built: eCommerce platform APIs; custom WordPress and Drupal themes and plugins

• Contributed to an eCommerce platform, building APIs and optimising database queries.
• Built custom WordPress and Drupal themes and plugins with a focus on performance.
• First commercial development role — where I picked up production workflow, version control and code review.

A legacy PHP application rebuilt into a secure React, Laravel and Node.js microservice platform used across multiple departments — and the system that produced the financial data used for ASIC reviews.

A school portal used daily by 150+ staff for reporting, internal and parent email, and event payment pages — built where security was a first-class requirement rather than a later hardening pass.

Catering software on a Laravel and Vue.js microservice architecture, where the work was adding functionality to a long-lived product without destabilising it.

The automation and edge side of the agency work: Cloudflare security and DNS, AI templates on Cloudflare Workers, and integrations wired together with make.com, Zapier and n8n.

Ongoing store work and platform migrations: store setup, product configuration, customisation, payment and CRM integrations, WooCommerce and security across high-revenue client sites.