Pulkit Jalan
Senior Platform Engineer
Salford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPulkit Jalan is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating scalable web platforms, currently driving platform initiatives at Maple. He brings deep backend expertise in PHP/Laravel, AWS, Docker and Bash, and previously served as a System Architect at Twine where he led architectural decisions for internet-facing systems. An active contributor to the Laravel ecosystem, he has improved the widely used dingo/api package with enhanced routing, scope validation and authentication refinements. Pulkit combines hands-on engineering with a formal Computer Science background from the University of Manchester, and has a track record of turning API and infrastructure complexity into maintainable, production-ready solutions. Based in Salford, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade platform thinking and a pragmatic focus on developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bury College2.1, Computer Science, 2.1, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (20)
url-routing10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
api10
oauth10
testing9
lumen8
phpunit7
unit-test7
azure6
wordpress6
http-live-streaming6
bash6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dingo/api
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / API Developer
Back-end Developer / API DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Pulkit primarily focused on enhancing the Dingo API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks. Their contributions included adding new router functions like `any` and `match`, alongside functionalities such as supporting route scopes and strict scope validation. Additionally, the user made improvements to the transformer factory and authentication providers, refining the API's internal workings.
apirestfulphpapi-generatorlumen
pulkitjalan/xero-laravel
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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