Vandita Solanki

Senior Backend Engineer with 10+ years of experience in PHP, MySQL, and API-driven systems. Proven expertise in production incident management, log monitoring, and delivering clean, well-structured code across remote and hybrid environments. Demonstrated ability to lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and manage end-to-end release cycles with strong ownership and accountability.

Currently returning to the market after a planned career break spent strengthening core programming paradigms, ready to channel this into hands-on engineering delivery at a senior level with technical leadership responsibilities.

Career Break - Planned Career Break

(2025-09)

• Took a planned career break; utilized the time to strengthen core engineering roots; now fully prepared to return to full-time engineering execution and commit to a long-term senior technical track, with immediate onboarding availability.

Senior Software Engineer - Shipwire (CMA CGM) - Mumbai, India

(2021-06 - 2025-09)

• Served as Shift Lead for Engineering Support (PST hours), acting as the primary escalation point and subject-matter expert responsible for real-time decisions during high-severity production incidents.
• Diagnosed and resolved complex customer-facing issues by analysing application logs and source code, implementing code fixes, and delivering production-ready solutions across systems.
• Designed and developed a UI-based self-service rating breakdown tool that reduced dependency on support teams and improved report turnaround time.
• Enhanced backend applications and API integrations by improving existing functionality and optimizing legacy PHP code and scheduled tasks to improve system performance, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Implemented and supported data exchange processes using Cleo Integration software for B2B integrations.
• Owned deployment verification, post-release monitoring, and issue triage to ensure safe releases.
• Utilized DevOps-managed Vagrant/Vcluster environments for local development and pre-release testing, ensuring consistent workflows aligned with production configurations.
• Created automated test cases with integrated RTT for regression testing, improving code quality and reducing release risks.
• Mentored junior developers and led code review practices, incorporating AI-assisted tooling to accelerate coding workflows and improve documentation quality.

Software Development Engineer II - Justdial Ltd - Mumbai, India

(2015-12 - 2021-06)

• Profiled and optimized underperforming PHP/MySQL backend modules, identifying and resolving performance deficiencies to improve application efficiency and response times across high-traffic pages.
• Developed and integrated custom PHP backend modules and responsive UI pages for the SEO team, supporting high-traffic page optimization and contributing to improved organic search performance.
• Managed MySQL stored procedures, handled ETL processes, and automated reporting workflows with PHP/MySQL.
• Developed and maintained backend modules, dashboards, and frontend MIS reports supporting internal business operations across multiple departments.
• Contributed across the full product development lifecycle - from requirements analysis through development, testing, and production release - in an Agile/Scrum environment.

PHP Developer - Persource Pvt Ltd - Ahmedabad, India

(2013-05 - 2014-11)

• Contributed to rebuilding the EventEdge product from scratch, owning backend PHP modules and frontend integration components.
• Designed and developed custom APIs to support data exchange between the web application and backend services, ensuring secure and performant integrations.
• Built the web application version of EventEdge, delivering a browser-based product experience from scratch.
• Implemented responsive UI using Bootstrap framework, delivering a consistent cross-device user experience.

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications - Nirma University (2010 - 2013)