Axel Boudias
Senior backend developer with 16 years building and scaling PHP web applications
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Senior backend developer with 16 years building and scaling PHP web applications.
Experienced across the full backend stack: API and service design, database performance, caching, and the reliability work that keeps a system correct when parts of it fail. Deep, hands-on background integrating ERP systems with e-commerce platforms, including Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and Oracle JD Edwards.
Adobe Certified
Expert with extensive Adobe Commerce work covering B2B order flows, multi-warehouse fulfillment, and orders carrying thousands of line items, and leads a small development team.
Experience
Senior Backend Developer, Tech Lead - Groupe Conseil ERA
(2025-06)
- Architected and built a custom middleware service that synchronizes products, customers, companies, and separate bill-to / ship-to addresses between Adobe Commerce and Oracle JD Edwards, where no off-the-shelf connector was viable.
- Designed order orchestration that splits each order across fulfilling warehouses, then chunks each split into 500-line-item batches to respect a hard JD Edwards limit, and reconciles the resulting transactions back to a single customer-facing order.
- Built customer-specific SKU cross-referencing so buyers can order using their own part numbers, along with per-customer price lists and catalogs, plus automated product-swap handling to keep in-flight orders consistent when upstream product data changes.
- Extended Adobe Commerce B2B to support blanket orders and orders carrying thousands of distinct line items.
- Currently integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: customer-specific price lists and product/customer master data.
- Lead a team of 4 developers, defining architecture directly with client-side ERP teams and owning delivery.
Senior Backend Developer, Tech Lead - Valtech
(2019-01 - 2025-06)
- Built the NetSuite integration for Adobe Commerce, handling order submission and product master synchronization, with a separate order flow for gift-registry purchases that needed its own fulfillment and payment handling. Also developed custom Magento modules for payment, shipping, and core platform functionality.
- Delivered within PCI DSS controls: enforced peer review before merge, documented change control with recorded QA outcomes, and built tooling that produced anonymized databases so real customer data never reached development environments.
- Led development and maintenance of multiple Magento 2 applications across on-premise and Adobe Commerce Cloud deployments.
- Managed 4 development teams and partnered with clients to define technical strategy and scope platform capability.
Senior Backend Developer - FlightHub
(2017-10 - 2019-01)
- Improved API performance by 25% through Redis caching, Xdebug profiling, and query optimization.
- Restructured API response contracts to support React web and native mobile clients.
- Implemented scheduled jobs for application notifications and rebuilt the internal A/B testing framework.
Senior Fullstack Developer, Team Lead - Baseline Telematics
(2016-01 - 2017-10)
- Migrated the platform architecture from single-tenant to multi-tenant, a significant refactor of a live production system.
- Designed and documented 50+ RESTful APIs consumed by internal services and third-party integrators.
- Built asynchronous worker processing on RabbitMQ with Supervisor.
- Established PHPUnit coverage and optimized database structures for performance.
- Led a 5-person offshore team, owning code review and quality control.
Fullstack Web Developer - Baldgorilla Software Inc.
(2010-11 - 2016-01)
- Built full-stack web applications and single-page applications in PHP and Laravel.
- Modernized and maintained legacy systems across multiple client products.
- Led a team of frontend developers and coordinated across departments.
Education
Diplôme en Techniques d'intégration en Multimédia - Multimedia Integration Techniques - CEGEP de Maisonneuve
