Apr – Jun 2026
Fashion e-commerce platform
A Laravel 12 fashion store for the Bangladeshi market, with storefront and admin panel in one app, built on contract for a client. I took it over from a theme-based prototype and rebuilt it.
- My role
- Primary developer, on contract for a client
The problem
A fashion retailer selling in taka needed one platform to take cash-on-delivery orders online, and to run orders, returns, coupons and content from an admin panel without developer help.
My approach
I took over a prototype built on purchased themes and rebuilt it as a Tailwind-based Laravel 12 app. I built the commerce core: product variants, a cart that merges on login, coupons re-checked at submit, and idempotent order placement with row locks and price snapshots. I also built the order and return workflows and an admin panel with a dashboard and editable content pages. I made price filtering and search index-backed, with a generated price column and FULLTEXT search, hardened security with a strict Content Security Policy and fixes across auth, checkout and admin flows, and set up GitHub Actions deploys to a VPS.
The outcome
In load tests on synthetic data (on a branch not yet merged), PHP-FPM, not MySQL, turned out to be the bottleneck. Tuning moved a simulated 2-vCPU server's latency knee from about 50 to 80 concurrent users.