Set Lar
Founder at MyanmarDevJobs
Singapore
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSet Lar is a Singapore-based software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building backend systems, DevOps pipelines, and full-stack web applications across startups and enterprises. He founded MyanmarDevJobs and has driven product and engineering work at companies like Carro and Affyn, combining operational rigor with hands-on backend development. An active open-source contributor, he fixed critical execution and stability issues in the widely used spatie/laravel-web-tinker package, showing a knack for pragmatic refactoring. His career spans building payment systems, REST APIs, and automated tests, and he routinely bridges product needs with clean, maintainable code. Beyond work, he maintains a technical blog and public profiles (GitHub, StackOverflow, Twitter), reflecting a commitment to community and continuous learning. Notably, he pairs startup instincts with production-grade engineering discipline, making him effective both as a founder and as an individual contributor.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Dagon UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London
English
Stackoverflow
4,556reputation
644kreached
45answers
36questions
laravel
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
debugging10
debug10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
refactoring9
toolbox7
tooling7
toolz7
vagrant6
laravel-routing6
homestead6
laravel-blade6
vue6
rest6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spatie/laravel-web-tinker
May 2020 - May 2020
Tinker in your browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Set contributed to the `laravel-web-tinker` project by addressing critical issues related to its core functionality. They fixed an infinite loop issue within the `CustomExecutionClosure` class, refactoring the code to prevent the problem. The user also addressed style issues raised by the continuous integration processes, and refactored the code by removing unnecessary custom classes and streamlining execution logic.
tinkerbrowserphpjavascriptdebug
setkyar/setkyar.github.io
Jun 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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