Portrait of Raitis Gorbacevics

RaitisGorbacevics

Senior Laravel Developer

Full-lifecycle web and platform engineering. I own architecture, backend, frontend, integrations and the servers it all runs on.

About

I'm a senior lead web developer who single-handedly owns the full lifecycle: architecture, backend, frontend, integrations and deployment, building systems designed to grow with the business. My expertise extends beyond the code — server setup, database management and infrastructure, owning the full stack a project runs on, not just the application layer. I work comfortably in an agentic development workflow, pairing 20+ years of architectural judgement with modern tooling to accelerate delivery.

I deliver secure, high-performance Laravel applications across e-commerce, SaaS and professional services. I'm skilled in reducing technical debt, hardening security and compliance, and accelerating release cycles, working unaided across production systems. I place a high value on quality and maintainability.

Experience

2015 — 202610+ years

Senior Lead Web Developer

MIG Baltic · Freelance

Multi-channel e-commerce platform.

  • Owned the full architecture for a decade, with only minimal outside developer involvement.
  • Built from zero, starting from a single retail store. It now spans one retail store, two wholesale channels, a warehousing system (including an app for warehouse workers) and a supplier reservation system.
  • Tens of millions of database requests per day.
  • Owned production infrastructure and performance: MariaDB tuning and query optimisation (slow-query analysis with Percona Toolkit), Redis caching, RabbitMQ-based RPC between services, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.
Jan 2017 — Feb 20225 yrs 2 mos

Sole Developer

WashBox · Contract

Managed marketplace and IoT platform for laundry pickup, washing and delivery.

  • Single-handedly built the whole IT infrastructure end to end: Laravel backend for a managed marketplace (aggregator model), iOS and Android apps in Flutter, IoT locker integration and server maintenance.
  • Role-based access for staff, admins, individuals, hotel and restaurant (B2B) accounts, and partner laundromats.
  • Commission-based payment splitting, secure payments and real-time tracking.
Jul 2015 — Aug 20161 yr 2 mos

Web Developer

WPBakery · Employed

The popular WordPress plugin “Visual Composer”.

  • React for the plugin itself, Laravel for the backend infrastructure.
May 2013 — Aug 20134 mos

Sole Developer

Opportunity

US-based lead generation tool.

Apr 2011 — Apr 20121 yr 1 mo

Sole Developer

SunyRide

Finnish ride-sharing app.

Jul 2006 — Jan 20114 yrs 7 mos

Web Developer

Mendo

Web agency.

  • Developed a wide range of web solutions for some of the biggest brands in Latvia, including Swedbank, Volkswagen, Ford, Latvijas Pasts, Latvijas Kuģniecība and Ziedot.lv.

Personal projects

Website

Pickable

Multi-court pickleball discovery and booking platform, launching in Dumaguete, Philippines.

  • Cross-court availability search: players find an open slot across every venue at once, instead of checking courts one by one.
  • Multi-merchant model: each venue owner manages their own courts and bookings, with online payments per venue on the roadmap.
  • Built solo end to end: product design, backend, frontend, payments architecture and hosting.
Web + mobileinactive

Tracday

A full workout tracking app, including a web version plus Android and iOS apps. Now inactive.

Skills

Backend
PHPLaravelCakePHPCraft CMSPython
Frontend
JavaScriptVue.jsReactTailwind
Mobile
FlutterAndroid (Java)
Data
MySQLMariaDBSQLiteRedisQuery optimisationLaravel Scout / TNTSearch
Integrations
RESTGraphQLRPCRabbitMQOAuthJWTPayment gatewaysIoT
Infrastructure
LinuxNginxDockerDigitalOceanCloudflareGit / BitbucketCI/CD
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaSentryPercona ToolkitMetabase
Practices
Unit testingSecurity hardeningPerformance tuningAgentic AI development (Claude Code, Junie, local LLMs)

Languages

Latvian
Native
English
Fluent — speaking, reading, writing
Russian
Fluent speaking and reading, intermediate writing