Dublin, Ireland · Irish citizen — no sponsorship needed (IE / EU / UK)

Asif Rana

Software Engineer — Backend / Full Stack

I build and run a three-app platform — driver, staff and team portals — for the UK's largest private hire group, as part of a deliberately small engineering team: thousands of drivers across dozens of fleets, covering onboarding, licensing compliance, payments and statements. I care about integrations that don't lie, payments you can trust, and migrations that lose nothing.

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asif@dublin — zsh
$ whoami
software engineer · backend / full stack

$ stack --primary
php/laravel · vue/nuxt · typescript

$ platform --status
thousands of drivers · dozens of fleets · in production

$ last-migration --verify
1M+ records → 0 missing ✓▌
5 yrscommercial engineering, 3 running one platform
1000sof drivers on the platform I build and run
1M+records migrated — reconciled to 0 missing
Dozensof fleets · multiple dispatch systems integrated

01. About

For the last three years I've been part of the small engineering team behind Veezu's driver platform — the Driver Portal (veezu.partners) where UK taxi drivers join a fleet, stay compliant and get paid; the Staff Portal that runs the back office; and the Team Portal regional teams use to manage their drivers. Laravel APIs, Nuxt 3 apps, and a deep bench of integrations. On a team this small, "full stack" is literal: I design the domain, build the APIs and UI, write the tests, ship the releases and answer for production.

Before that: recruitment SaaS at HireUp (React + Laravel), a laboratory information system at Fitz Scientific, and the support side of iCabbi's dispatch platform — which is exactly the API I'd end up integrating against years later.

How I work

  • Evidence first. Production gets debugged with receipts — logs, ledgers, reproductions — not guesses.
  • Conventions matter. I mirror the codebase's patterns and leave it more consistent than I found it.
  • AI with ownership. Claude Code is in my daily workflow — investigation, tests, review — and every line that ships is mine.
  • Sensitive data by design. Encryption, retention and GDPR are part of the feature, not an afterthought.

02. Experience

Software Engineer · Veezu

Oct 2023 — present · remote, Dublin

UK's largest private hire operator · driver, staff & team portals (Laravel · Nuxt 3 · MySQL · Redis · Azure)

  • Build and run the platform end-to-end — domain modelling, REST APIs, Horizon queues, Nuxt/Vue UI, Pest tests, releases and monitoring (Sentry, Better Stack) — across the driver, staff and team portals.
  • Own its integration surface: iCabbi dispatch, Judopay and RushPay payments, Intercom, Zendesk, DVLA data and Microsoft SSO.
  • Led the Zendesk → Intercom migration and legal archive: parallel, resumable Laravel CLI; over a million tickets with every attachment into Azure Blob + Intercom, reconciled to zero missing.
  • Designed encrypted bank-details capture and approval — state machine, encrypted casts, GDPR-led decisions — replacing a shared spreadsheet.
  • Keep driver data syncing in near-real-time with iCabbi dispatch and Intercom; found and fixed the silent failure modes; recovered live payment incidents from webhook receipts, Redis/Horizon state and ledger evidence.
  • Proved a recurring data-corruption bug external with a read-only audit across every dispatch system in the group, then shipped audit tooling and a weekly drift report.

Full Stack Developer · HireUp

Oct 2022 — Sep 2023 · Dublin

Recruitment SaaS (React · PHP/Laravel · MySQL · AWS)

  • Built the client analytics dashboard in React + PHP; integrated the Greenhouse ATS with asynchronous status sync.

Full Stack Developer · Fitz Scientific

Apr — Sep 2022 · Drogheda

Laboratory information management system (PHP · SQL)

  • User-facing features, APIs and schema work for B2B clients in clean, documented PHP.

WordPress Developer · Babylon Radio

Oct 2021 — Mar 2022 · Dublin
  • Custom theme development, back-end integrations, SEO and analytics.

Application Support Specialist · iCabbi

Feb — Oct 2019 · Dublin
  • Published white-label passenger apps (iOS/Android): Firebase auth, store releases — dispatch domain knowledge reused years later at Veezu.

03. What I've built

3 apps · 1 platform · end-to-end ownership

The Veezu driver platform

Since 2023 I've been hands-on across every part of the platform behind driver operations at the UK's largest private hire group — a small engineering team working from core principles: clean domain design, convention-driven Laravel and Nuxt 3, tested and observable, integrated with the systems the business runs on.

Driver Portalveezu.partnersWhere thousands of driver partners onboard, keep licensing documents compliant, manage vehicles, submit bank details and read their statements.
Staff Portalback-office adminApprovals, fleet and document management, payments, reports and statement publishing across dozens of fleets.
Team Portalregional managementThe app regional teams use to manage their drivers — documents, compliance and day-to-day administration.
Core
LaravelNuxt 3TypeScriptMySQLRedis · Horizon queuesAzure
Integrations
iCabbi dispatchJudopayRushPayIntercomZendeskDVLAMicrosoft SSO
Operations
SentryBetter StackGitHub Actions CI/CDPest · LarastanLaravel Forge

Highlights from running it in production

1M+ records → 0 missing

Zero-loss migration

Over a million support tickets and every attachment out of Zendesk into Azure Blob and Intercom — parallel, resumable, reconciled against the live source before the contract ended.

charged ≠ credited, solved

Payment incidents recovered

Traced charged-but-not-credited cases through webhook receipts, queue state and ledger evidence; replayed balance updates idempotently.

fleet-wide audit · read-only

Data integrity, proven

Proved a recurring data-corruption bug external with a read-only audit across every dispatch system in the group, then shipped the guardrails and a weekly drift report.

04. Skills

Backend
PHP 8LaravelHorizonSanctumREST API designMySQLRedisNode.jsPython · Django
Frontend
Vue 3Nuxt 3TypeScriptReactTailwind CSSPrimeVue
Auth & real-time
OAuth / JWTMicrosoft SSOWebhooksQueues & scheduling
Quality & DevOps
Pest / PHPUnitLarastanVitestPlaywrightGitHub ActionsDockerLaravel ForgeSentryBetter Stack
Cloud & integrations
AzureAWS — certifiediCabbiIntercomZendeskJudopayRushPayDVLAGreenhouse

05. Education & certifications

Higher Diploma in Software DevelopmentNFQ Level 8 · National College of Ireland, Dublin2020 — 2021
Diploma in Full Stack Web DevelopmentCode Institute, Dublin2019 — 2020
AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Servicescertified
BA EconomicsUniversity of the Punjab, Pakistan2002 — 2006

Let's talk

Open to senior backend / full-stack roles, fully remote (Ireland · EU · UK). The fastest way to reach me is email — I reply quickly.

rasifrana@hotmail.com Message me on LinkedIn