Raza Mehdi
Lead Software Architect at ScoutsCapital
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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Top SchoolRaza Mehdi is a lead software architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, cost‑efficient systems and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines practical backend expertise in PHP, Python and Node.js with proven cloud optimization skills—having halved Google Cloud spend via Terraform at ScoutsCapital and driven a 40% AWS cost reduction earlier in his career. Raza architects resilient platforms (GKE, high-availability DB clusters, Temporal workflows) while also owning delivery, observability stacks and engineering standards for frontend and mobile teams. An active contributor to the Laravel ecosystem, his database and migrations work in laravel/framework and illuminate/database shows deep knowledge of schema management across multiple SQL engines. Colleagues know him as a mentor and pragmatic leader who bridges strategic planning with hands‑on implementation to turn complex, media‑heavy systems into reliable, measurable products.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila
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Github Skills (27)
database-migrations10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
testing10
laravel10
php10
api10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
database-management10
database-migration10
schema10
mysql9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
srmklive/laravel-paypal
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Laravel plugin for processing payments through PayPal.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 releases, 8 reviews, 335 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Raza implemented a tracker API and moved methods to traits within the project. This included the creation of a `Trackers` trait with methods to show tracking details, update tracking information, and add batch tracking functionality. The user also added tests for the Tracker API, demonstrating a focus on API development and testing within the context of the Laravel PayPal plugin.
paymentslaravel-pluginphppayment-gatewaybilling
illuminate/database
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Raza primarily contributed to the Illuminate Database component, focusing on enabling and disabling foreign key constraints for various database systems like SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. They also implemented options to revert/redo and refresh specific numbers of migrations, enhancing the control and flexibility of database schema management. Additional work included fixing factory errors and a foreign key issue when the primary key is not 'id'.
splitilluminatemysqllaravel-frameworkphp
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