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Senior software engineer & architect · Laravel · React/Next.js · AI engineering · Philippines

Albert Maranian Jr

Twenty years building the software companies actually run on — ERPs, SaaS platforms, and line-of-business systems carrying real financial and compliance weight.

Below: four production systems in four industries — food service, real-estate brokerage, real-estate development and construction, pharmaceutical distribution — each built end to end, from schema and domain logic to the interfaces people work in every day. All still running.

Case studies

four systems · four industries
01

AJA Savory Food Services

Multi-Entity ERP · food service

Three businesses — subscription meal delivery, multi-branch retail with POS, shared corporate back-office — on one Laravel + Filament panel. AI marketing pipeline, Philippine payroll, event-driven accounting, Loyverse integration.

sole engineer ~97k LOC · 142 models 1,358 commits · 2.5 years still active
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02

Marrea

Real-Estate & Construction ERP

The full lifecycle of a housing project: sales, decade-long receivables, treasury, procurement, construction costing, HRIS and statutory payroll — across two Filament panels. HRIS + payroll owned end to end, plus review authority across a five-developer team.

senior engineer & tech lead ~240k LOC · 361 models team of five · 1,203 of 7,671 commits mine two panels
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03

Comtrak + Cubed

Real-Estate Brokerage Platform

Full-stack ownership of both tiers: a Laravel API with two Filament panels and an automated commission engine that computes VAT-stripped, tax-deducted splits the moment a sale is recorded — plus a Next.js 16 agent app with its own design system, and an AI agent whose authorization lives in its role-scoped tool surface.

sole engineer, both tiers ~42k LOC backend · 104 components frontend 308 commits 21 AI tools · 4 personas
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04

Priomed

Pharmaceutical inventory

Multi-branch stock, procurement, controlled adjustments, and dispensing with a pharmaceutical-grade audit trail — deliberately compact, with layered services, global-scope branch isolation, and a static-analysis ratchet.

sole engineer ~14k LOC · 33 models 150 of 154 commits the architecture case study
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Experience

20+ years · 2006 – present
2023 – now

Independent Senior Software Engineer

Freelancer · Davao City, Philippines

Design and delivery of custom business systems, SaaS platforms, and ERP solutions — requirements through deployment and support. Clients in real estate, food services, retail, and pharmaceutical distribution; cloud infrastructure on DigitalOcean, Forge, and Redis; AI-assisted development workflows.

2020 – 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Jarvis Analytics · Dallas, TX (remote)

SaaS analytics platform for dental practices and multi-location dental organizations. Backend services, data workflows, integrations, and user-facing reporting across multiple practice-management systems; production reliability, data accuracy, and performance at scale.

2015 – 2020

Senior Web Application Developer

Salary Board Pte. Ltd. · Singapore (remote)

Labor-market analytics and compensation-data platform. Salary research tools, dashboards, and reporting used by professionals, companies, and government organizations; external data integrations and internal APIs through multiple growth stages.

2011 – 2015

Senior Software Developer

REfindly · Naples, FL (remote)

Web software for real estate agents, teams, and brokerages: responsive sites, CRM features, lead generation, and property search on listing-data integrations — across many branded installations with distinct configurations.

2006 – 2011

Freelance Web Developer

Self-employed · clients in Ireland & California

Business websites, database-driven PHP/MySQL applications, CMSs, and internal tools — owning the full lifecycle from requirements to ongoing support.

The composite picture

drawn from the systems above
01

Backend

  • Laravel 11/12 · PHP 8.2–8.4 · primary stack
  • Eloquent at scale · 361 models in one system
  • Event-driven domain design · service + action layers
  • Queued processing · Horizon · Redis
  • Sanctum APIs · Reverb websockets · auth + realtime
  • Node.js · NestJS · typed, modular web-app backends
02

Admin platforms

  • Filament v4 & v5, in depth · resources, pages, widgets, relation managers
  • Multi-panel setups · separate panels, one domain model
  • Exporters & custom analytics · 18+ analytics pages built
  • Major-version upgrades on live systems · Filament v4→v5 · Livewire 3→4 · Laravel 11→12
03

Frontend

  • Next.js 16 App Router · React 19 · Zustand · SWR
  • Bespoke design systems on Tailwind · Atomic Design, token layers
  • Storybook + a11y checks · Playwright · Vitest browser mode
  • Vue.js · Angular · production experience
  • Livewire · Alpine.js · the TALL stack
  • Legacy stacks · CodeIgniter · jQuery — maintained and modernized
04

Domains

  • Double-entry accounting · AR, AP, journals, reconciliation
  • Philippine statutory payroll · SSS · PhilHealth · Pag-IBIG · labor law
  • Multi-branch inventory & procurement · reconciling, audited
  • Subscription billing · commissions · renewals, edge cases
  • Construction costing · BOQ / POW / cost-to-finish
05

AI engineering

  • LLM content pipelines · auditable, reproducible prompts
  • Classification over real corpora · churn & topic analysis
  • Tool-calling agents · authorization enforced by the tool surface
  • AI-assisted development · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · agent-context docs per subsystem
06

Infrastructure

  • Laravel Forge · Laravel Cloud · provisioning & deploys
  • DigitalOcean · AWS S3 · droplets, Spaces, object storage
  • Ubuntu · Nginx · Supervisor · Redis · production operations
  • Git · GitLab & GitHub CI/CD · automated pipelines
07

Integrations

  • OpenAI · Meta Graph API · publishing, sync, webhooks
  • Loyverse POS · Brevo · AWS S3 · typed API clients
  • Headless-Chrome rendering · PDF generation · Browsershot · DomPDF · FPDF
08

Quality

  • PHPUnit · Pest · 240+ test files at peak
  • Larastan / PHPStan · baselines as a ratchet
  • Pint · Rector · Telescope · formatting, upgrades, observability
  • Audit trails & policies · on every financial record
09

Practice

  • Technical leadership · review + merge authority, team of five
  • Written architecture docs · a first-class deliverable
  • Honest debt management · named, contained, scheduled