Summary
Luiz Martins is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of professional experience and over 15 years coding, specialized in PHP/Laravel and modern JavaScript stacks like Vue.js. He designs and delivers scalable web applications and robust backends, owning full lifecycle work from architecture and database modeling to deployment and performance optimization on AWS and DigitalOcean. Certified in Laravel and practiced in Test-Driven Development, he emphasizes readable, maintainable code and clean architecture across APIs and frontend-backend integrations. Luiz has international remote experience building payment-enabled services with Symfony and Stripe, and contributes to open source—maintaining a lightweight ES6+ carousel (Jauntyslider) and fixing docs for popular JS tools. He’s also the founder of notadogame.com, a community-driven gaming platform, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak that complements his hands-on engineering. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he is fluent in English and Portuguese and comfortable operating in Linux cloud environments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Universidade Federal Fluminense
English, Portuguese, French