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Mark JoshuaFajardo

Backend developer who makes live systems faster without breaking them.

7 years in PHP — Symfony, API Platform, EasyAdmin, Laravel, Vue and Redis. Most of it spent on codebases that were already in production, already busy, and couldn't afford downtime. Currently on the Performance & Maintenance team at EonX. On the side I ship my own products under WeCreate, including two Android apps written in PHP with NativePHP.

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Experience 7 years Web & backend, since 2019
Core stack PHP · Symfony API Platform, EasyAdmin, Laravel, Vue, Redis
Currently EonX Performance & Maintenance team
Working style Remote only Philippines · GMT+8 · overlaps AU & Asia
What I'm hired for

Three things I do well

Performance on running systems

Profiling, optimisation and framework upgrades on apps that are already serving real traffic. Measure first, change second, prove the difference after.

Leading and mentoring

Co-led product teams at Cafe24, mentored junior developers, set coding standards and ran the code reviews that kept them honest.

Shipping end to end

Five products of my own now live, including two Android apps built with NativePHP — same stack, all the way from the API down to the Play Store listing.

Experience

Where I've worked

2023 — Now

EonX (Flexilabs, Inc.)

Backend Developer

Keeping long-lived products fast, current and pleasant to work on.

  • Backend developer on the Performance & Maintenance team — upgrades, optimisation and technical debt.
  • 3 years building and maintaining REST APIs with API Platform and admin back-offices with EasyAdmin on Symfony.
  • Streamline the build, environment and release workflows the wider dev team depends on.
  • Work from metrics rather than hunches when diagnosing slow paths and memory issues.
SymfonyAPI PlatformEasyAdminPHPDockerDatadogComposerJira
2022 — 2023

Cafe24 PH

L2 Web Developer

Co-led product delivery and turned a growing widget app into a paying one.

  • Co-lead on the Taiwan Line Shopping Management Service Package.
  • Led the overhaul of the Instagram Widget App — scalability, performance, and launching paid subscriptions.
  • Mentored junior developers, introduced coding standards and ran code reviews.
LaravelVueJSMySQLSubscriptionsMentoring
2019 — 2021

Cafe24 PH

L1 Web Developer

Cut my teeth on the company's largest, highest-priority platforms.

  • Built a coupon management application for the e-commerce platform's sellers.
  • Optimised and extended Tollgate — five modular apps communicating over Redis and an internal API.
  • Moved onto the time-sensitive FGSTF projects in 2021.
PHPRedisREST APIsE-commerce
2020 — 2021

Freelance

Web Developer

Client work, led solo and with small teams.

  • Chef Morris Danzen — led the team building the blog of a Filipino chef and YouTube vlogger based in Italy, including his customisable recipe pages.
  • GP NAPO — built the company website with their team.
2019

Calcmenu Philippines Inc.

Intern Web Developer
  • Worked on the admin side of a Face Recognition Attendance System.
  • Built an Android app for scanning QR codes and barcodes.
WeCreate Services

Products I've built and shipped

My own studio. I handle these end to end — backend, frontend, Android, store listings and marketing sites. The two mobile apps are written in PHP and compiled to Android with NativePHP. All five are live; click through to any of them.

On Google Play Android app

Wobble

A baby milestone tracker for a child's first three years. Percentile growth charts, adjusted age for premature babies, two-tap daily logs, photo memories. No account, no cloud — all data stays on the device.

NativePHPLaravelSQLiteAdMob
Visit → Coming soon Android game

Flipdrop

A one-tap arcade game. Tap and gravity flips. Global leaderboard, cosmetics earned by playing rather than sold, and a world that inverts to night once you climb high enough — the same trick this page just played on you.

NativePHPLaravelLeaderboardsAdMob
Visit → Private beta Web platform

Pepper RSVP

An RSVP platform for events, with a private console for organisers to manage their guest list. Access is by invitation.

Visit → Live Reference site

Palmon Wiki

A strategy database for Palmon Survival. Breaks camp strength into its eleven power categories so players can see where their numbers actually come from, plus squad and element guides.

Visit → Live Studio site

wecreate-services.com

The studio itself — software, websites and mobile applications for companies and individuals. Design, build and copy, top to bottom.

Visit →
Toolkit

What I work with

Backend

  • PHP — Symfony, Laravel, Lumen
  • API Platform — 3 years
  • EasyAdmin — 3 years
  • Queues — Worker / Horizon
  • C# — ASP.NET
  • Java, C++, VB.NET

Frontend

  • JavaScript — VueJS, jQuery
  • HTML & CSS
  • Bootstrap

Mobile

  • NativePHP — Android builds
  • Google Play release & listings
  • AdMob & consent (CMP)

Data & storage

  • MySQL / MariaDB
  • Redis
  • SQL Server Management Studio

Ways of working

  • Git — GitHub, GitLab
  • Agile delivery
  • Team leadership & mentoring
  • Project management
Education

Before all that

2015 — 2019

BS Information Technology

  • Dean's Lister, S.Y. 2017–2018
  • Associate in Computer Technology, S.Y. 2015–2017
  • Competed in the Web Development and C++ Programming competitions
Get in touch

Let's talk about
the role.

Open to remote backend and lead positions — remote only, no onsite or hybrid. I work from GMT+8 and overlap comfortably with Australian and Asian teams. Email is the fastest way to reach me; I reply within a day.

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