Senior PHP Engineer — Backend, Multi-Cloud & Network Architecture Educator · Mentor · Open-source maintainer · Dhaka, Bangladesh
PHP across Laravel, CodeIgniter, CakePHP and Slim, building high-concurrency APIs and the multi-cloud network topologies they run on. Founder of Programming Mindset, where I teach backend engineering on YouTube and mentor developers moving into senior roles. My packages for the Bangladeshi SMS and payments ecosystem are installed in production systems across the country.
Packages I maintain, used in production by teams across Bangladesh.
| Package | Description | Stars | Installs |
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| laravelbdsms | Unified Laravel SMS driver for 35+ Bangladeshi gateways — SSL, GreenWeb, Metronet, BoomCast and more. |  |
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| nagadApi | PHP SDK for the Nagad payment gateway, covering payment, verification and sandbox flows. |  |
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| multisms | Framework-agnostic PHP SMS library for Bangladeshi gateways — the raw-PHP counterpart to laravelbdsms. |  |
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| paystation-sdk | Paystation gateway client supporting MFS wallets and card payments. |  |
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| deadlink-checker | Python crawler that maps a site and reports broken links. |  |
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composer require xenon/laravelbdsmsLanguages — PHP 8.x · JavaScript / TypeScript · SQL · Python
PHP Frameworks — Laravel (Octane, Horizon, Sanctum) · CodeIgniter · CakePHP · Slim · Symfony components · WordPress
API Design — REST architecture, versioning and documentation · token and OAuth authentication · rate limiting · queue-driven and event-based services
Frontend — TypeScript · Next.js · React
Data — MySQL · PostgreSQL · Redis · ProxySQL (read/write splitting, query routing)
Cloud & Network — GCP · AWS · OVH · DigitalOcean · VPC and subnet design · site-to-site and client VPN · load balancing · firewall orchestration
Platform — Docker · Kubernetes · Nginx · GitHub Actions
Architecture — Microservices · Domain-Driven Design · SEO-first delivery
AI Integration — LLM-driven workflows and agent tooling with Claude, GPT, Gemini and Qwen
A web agency building fast, maintainable websites and applications — design, development and consultation — alongside the teaching platform of the same name.
A developer utility hub on a Laravel + Next.js hybrid architecture — Laravel serving the API, Next.js the frontend, backed by a ProxySQL cluster with containerized deployments through GitHub Actions.
I spend a meaningful share of my time helping other developers get better at backend work.
- YouTube — @programmingmindset — practical walkthroughs on PHP, Laravel, APIs and deployment, aimed at developers who want to understand the reasoning rather than copy the code.
- Medium — @arif98741 — long-form writing on software engineering and cloud architecture.
- Mentoring — one-to-one guidance for developers moving from mid-level into senior backend roles: code review, architecture decisions, and career direction.
- Open source — maintaining the packages above and contributing to the wider PHP ecosystem.
- Building — database cluster scaling with ProxySQL behind isolated VPC architectures
- Learning — Kubernetes networking (CNI) and production patterns for AI agents
- Happy to talk about — Laravel service design, VPC and subnetting, SQL query optimization
- Open to — mentoring enquiries, open-source collaboration, and backend architecture consulting