Menna Galal

Laravel / PHP Developer with 4+ years of professional experience building and maintaining e-commerce platforms and business web applications. Contributed to 20+ projects across company and freelance work, including 15+ commercial projects at Bluezone Web Company. Backend-focused, with hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs, implementing complex business logic, designing database relationships, integrating payment gateways and third-party services, and supporting applications in production.

Comfortable taking independent ownership of features and delivering work across the development lifecycle.

Full Stack Developer - Bluezone Web Company

(2023-04 - 2026-10)

• Contributed to 15+ commercial projects, including e-commerce platforms and business applications; several were delivered end-to-end with an admin dashboard, customer-facing website, and backend APIs.
• Developed and maintained Laravel backend functionality, RESTful APIs, authentication flows, authorization rules, and role-based access control.
• Implemented business logic and data workflows, designing database schemas and relationships on selected projects and working with existing database designs where required.
• Integrated payment gateways and third-party services, including MyFatoorah, Stripe, MetalpriceAPI, Twilio, Mailgun, and Google, Apple, and Facebook login.
• Implemented multi-language support, push notifications, and multiple authentication guards for applications with different user roles.
• Applied queues, Redis, caching, database indexing, and query optimization where appropriate to support application performance and background processing.
• Enhanced existing applications by adding features, modifying existing functionality, fixing bugs, and troubleshooting issues reported from production environments.
• Handled deployment, debugging, maintenance, and feature delivery with independent ownership across backend, frontend, and production tasks.

Freelance Full Stack Developer

(2022-12 - 2023)

• Developed and delivered web applications for local and international clients across different business domains.
• Built REST APIs and authentication flows using Laravel Breeze, Sanctum, and JWT, according to project requirements.
• Created responsive frontend components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
• Customized Laravel packages and implemented tailored functionality to meet client requirements.

Bachelor - Computer Science - Ain Shams University (2022)