Elminson De Oleo Baez is a Lead Software Engineer based in New York with over a decade of experience building high-traffic web applications and architecting backend systems that serve millions of users and millions of installations. He is a PHP/Laravel and MySQL specialist with deep cloud experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure, and a proven track record implementing security best practices and OWASP-aligned controls. At Refersion he moved from senior engineer to lead, guiding cross-functional teams through full project lifecycles while mentoring junior developers and optimizing performance-critical queries. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded several SaaS projects (including GitStats, Cordt.us, CordTextSMS, and Logjs) that demonstrate his product-minded approach to developer tooling and user-facing services. He also contributes to notable open-source Laravel tooling—improving maintainability and test coverage in popular projects like rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer. Curious and hands-on, he blends long-term architectural thinking with day-to-day code improvements that produce measurable operational outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Programing, Project Manager, Sys Admin, Computer Science, Programing, Project Manager, Sys Admin at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Programming Technician/Web Design, Computer Programming, Programming Technician/Web Design, Computer Programming at CENTRO DE ENTRENAMIENTOS Y TECNOLOGÍA,(CENTEC) SANTO DOMINGO
Fundamentals and Management of GNU / Linux, Fundamentals and Management of GNU / Linux at FUNDACIÓN CÓDIGO LIBRE DOMINICANO (FCLD) SANTO DOMINGO
Transmedia Designer, PHP/Mysql, Transmedia Designer, PHP/Mysql at Altos de Chavon
Contributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 75 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Elminson primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the Laravel log viewer application. Their work included refactoring code by introducing a patterns array, making the log location configurable, and fixing related errors. The user also addressed multiple code quality issues, added a test class with basic test cases, and incorporated scrolling into the log file list. Furthermore, they added configuration settings and addressed issues related to multiple log file locations.
Contributions:67 PRs, 92 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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Elminson De Oleo Baez - Lead Software Engineer at Logjs