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Luis S.LS

Luis S.

Senior Engineer · Legacy · AI · Data SaaS

€500/day
Toulouse, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Luis

Senior backend engineer, I work on three topics that SaaS teams often set aside due to lack of time or specific internal skills:

Modernizing legacy codebases.Migrations from Lumen, old Symfony, or Laravel 5.x to modern Laravel, without freezing the roadmap or breaking production.

Integrating AI features into production.RAG, semantic search, LLM agents connected to your existing Laravel applications, with controlled cost and latency.

Data infrastructure for SaaS.AWS pipelines (S3, Lambda, Glue, DuckDB-WASM) designed to remain maintainable by your internal team.

Some achievements:
• Complete migration of a multi-tenant SaaS to Laravel — platform used by several major European foundations.
• Migration of a REST API from Lumen to Laravel.
• Implementation of static analysis (PHPStan) on backend + API; parallelization of the CI/CD pipeline.
• RAG Chatbot in production: chat.luismgspro.com.
• AWS data pipeline (S3 → Glue → parquet → DuckDB-WASM on the browser side) for multi-tenant SaaS.

Method:I start with a short 3-to-5-day diagnosis to frame the mission based on facts, not assumptions. I then write the action plan, execute it autonomously, and deliver clean code that your team can take over without hidden dependencies. Your internal developers remain focused on the product roadmap while I advance on the topic in parallel.

For whom:SaaS publishers, scale-ups, and established product teams. Missions from a few days to several months, remotely from Toulouse, with clients in France, Belgium, the UK, and more broadly in the EU.

If you have a backlog item that's been pending or a blocked project, write me a few words about what you've tried and what's holding you back — I'll get back to you with an initial analysis.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Self employed
    Senior Back End Software Engineer (Freelance)
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    July 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Toulouse, France
    Current and recent work includes:
    • - Large-scale framework migrations (Silex to Laravel, Lumen to Laravel)
    • - CI/CD pipeline optimization and test automation (parallel test execution)
    • - Data engineering with AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue) - ETL pipelines for near realtime analytics
    • - Static analysis tooling implementation (PHPStan) across multiple codebases
    • - Code quality mentoring and technical leadership in small teams
    Tech stack: PHP 7.4/8+, Laravel, Symfony, Doctrine, AWS, MySQL, Vue.js, Docker
    Amazon Web Services Software Architecture Data Engineering Laravel Docker
  • TLScontact
    Fullstack Developer
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    October 2022 - June 2025 (2 years and 8 months)
    Lisbon, Portugal
    • - Created and executed PHP unit tests to ensure reliable software and high quality code
    • - Improved scalability and maintainability by breaking down a large system into smaller, more manageable parts
    • - Implemented DDD and CQRS in order to improve the organization and effectiveness of a new project
    • - Used Problem-solving techniques to overcome technological difficulties and resolve issues within the framework of the current design
    • - Worked together with cross-functional teams to integrate various system components
    • - Created scalable Resful APIs for a microservices ecosystem were designed and deployed
    • - Actively participated in code reviews, offering insightful criticism and advocating best practices
    • - Mentored junior developers, passing on expertise and advising them on best practices in software development
    CI/CD REST APIs Amazon Web Services Software Architecture Domain Driven Design
  • emagine - Portugal
    Software Development Consultant
    DIGITAL AND IT
    October 2022 - June 2025 (2 years and 8 months)
    Lisbon, Portugal
    Consultant for TLScontact.

    • - Created and executed PHP unit tests to ensure reliable software and high quality code
    • - Improved scalability and maintainability by breaking down a large system into smaller, more manageable parts
    • - Implemented DDD and CQRS in order to improve the organization and effectiveness of a new project
    • - Used Problem-solving techniques to overcome technological difficulties and resolve issues within the framework of the current design
    • - Worked together with cross-functional teams to integrate various system components
    • - Created scalable Resful APIs for a microservices ecosystem were designed and deployed
    • - Actively participated in code reviews, offering insightful criticism and advocating best practices
    • - Mentored junior developers, passing on expertise and advising them on best practices in software development
    Domain Driven Design CI/CD REST APIs Amazon Web Services Laravel

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Education

  • Build a Backend REST API
    Build a Backend REST API
  • TypeScript) How To Become An Outstanding Solution Architect Using MySQL Databases With Python
    TypeScript) How To Become An Outstanding Solution Architect Using MySQL Databases With Python

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