// Backend Developer · PHP & Laravel
I build the backend that enterprises trust.
12+ years shipping backend systems for enterprise and public-sector clients — from a multinational energy provider to Catalonia's education department — with React and Next.js when a product needs a face.
Available for backend engineering roles — remote or hybrid, Barcelona
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Aseq A. Arman Shekh — "Nadim"
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12+ years · PHP, Laravel, Java, React
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RWE · Generalitat de Catalunya · Copyus
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// About
Twelve years of building backend systems that don't get to fail.
I'm a full-stack developer based in Barcelona with a PHP and Laravel core — over 12 years designing, building, and maintaining web applications and enterprise systems for clients who can't afford quiet failures in production.
I've spent seven years as backend developer for a multinational energy provider's enterprise applications, five years building systems for Catalonia's regional education department, and I currently run my own technical stack end-to-end as founder of Copyus — a Laravel platform, WooCommerce stores, a point-of-sale app in Electron/React, automated data pipelines, and self-hosted infrastructure.
I move between PHP/Laravel, Java, and full-stack JavaScript depending on what the system actually needs, not what's trendy — and I work comfortably across Catalan, Spanish, English, and Bengali with international, multilingual teams.
12+
years of professional experience
7
years with one enterprise client
4
languages spoken fluently or professionally
1
company founded and run end-to-end
// Skills
A backend-first stack, with full-stack range.
Backend
Frontend
Databases
E-commerce
DevOps & Tools
Integrations & AI
Practices
// Experience
Where the work happened.
2025 — Present
Founder & Technical Director
Copyus — Digital Printing & Stationery · Barcelona, Spain
Own the entire stack: a trilingual Laravel platform, WooCommerce stores, an Electron/React POS app, automated translation pipelines, and self-hosted infrastructure.
2018 — 2025
Backend Developer (PHP / Laravel)
E-TIC Sistemas — Grupo Alten, for client RWE · Barcelona, Spain
Seven years as backend developer for RWE, a global renewable energy operator — including rescuing and migrating two legacy PHP 4 systems (alarm and work management) to PHP 7 with no original documentation.
2013 — 2018
PHP / Web Developer
Itteria — Grupo SEIDOR, for Catalonia's Dept. of Education · Barcelona, Spain
Built mostly Java-based applications, including several microservices, for Catalonia's public education network — plus e-commerce and production-management projects for other Itteria clients.
2012 — 2013
PHP / Web Developer
nGloba Devices · Cardedeu, Barcelona
My first job after my degree — joined as a replacement developer to complete in-progress projects: a clinical data system for Neuroelectrics' Starstim device, membership and donor management for the nonprofit FundacioLar, plus online course platforms and e-commerce.
2010 — 2012
Higher Technician, Multiplatform App Development (DAM)
Salesians de Sarrià · Barcelona, Spain
Vocational training in software engineering, OOP, databases, and desktop/web/mobile application development.
// Projects
A few systems worth a closer look.
Enterprise, public sector, product, and healthcare — different constraints, same standard.
Enterprise · Renewable energy
RWE — Alarm & Work Management Systems
2018 – 2025 · via Grupo Alten
+Rescued and modernized two mission-critical PHP systems for a global wind-energy operator, including a PHP 4 to PHP 7 migration with no original documentation.
Enterprise · Renewable energy
RWE — Alarm & Work Management Systems
2018 – 2025 · via Grupo Alten
ROLE — Backend developer — took over ownership of both systems after two other developers had already worked on them.
PROBLEM — AMS (Alarm Management System) and WMS (Work Management System) were built years earlier by intern students on a custom in-house CMS, starting on PHP 4. By the time I took over, both were running huge volumes of production data in a legacy format, with no documentation.
BUILD — Fixed a large backlog of bugs, shipped new features on both systems, and led the migration from PHP 4 to PHP 7 — the hardest part, done without original documentation while the systems stayed live for a renewable energy operator running wind farms worldwide.
RESULT — Both systems modernized and stabilized in production — part of a seven-year continuous engagement with the client, the kind of sustained trust that doesn't happen without reliable delivery.
Founder · B2B e-commerce
Copyus
2025 – Present
+Founded and rebuilt a trilingual B2B platform end-to-end — web, e-commerce, POS, and SEO.
Founder · B2B e-commerce
Copyus
2025 – Present
ROLE — Founder & Technical Director — full ownership of architecture, development, and infrastructure.
PROBLEM — A product-category-first website wasn't converting B2B buyers, and the site had zero search indexing across its three languages.
BUILD — Rebuilt copyus.es as a trilingual (Catalan/Spanish/English) Laravel + Blade platform repositioned around B2B use cases; resolved indexing issues with hreflang, JSON-LD, canonical tags and dynamic sitemaps in all three languages; built WooCommerce stores including a Spain-market dropshipping operation; developed a custom WordPress/WooCommerce plugin that batch-translates supplier product data via the Google Cloud Translation API with fallback and error recovery.
RESULT — A live trilingual B2B platform with full search indexing restored and an automated multilingual catalog pipeline running in production.
Public sector · Education
Catalonia Dept. of Education Platforms
2013 – 2018 · via Itteria / Grupo SEIDOR
+Mostly Java-based backend work across multiple production systems for Catalonia's public education network, alongside e-commerce and production-management projects for other clients.
Public sector · Education
Catalonia Dept. of Education Platforms
2013 – 2018 · via Itteria / Grupo SEIDOR
ROLE — Backend developer across a portfolio of education-sector applications — mostly Java, including several microservices — plus unrelated client projects in WordPress and Laravel.
PROBLEM — Territorial services, resource cataloging, and school administration needed dedicated backend systems, several gated behind the region's LDAP network (XTEC) — alongside separate client needs for e-commerce and production management.
BUILD — Contributed to MeRLi, an educational resource catalog; APLI_SSTT, a territorial-services portal governing every education center in Catalonia (LDAP-gated); and GESISA, an education management system for an arts school handling enrollment, admissions, and certificates — most of this built in Java, including a handful of microservices. Alongside the education work, built a WordPress campaign site for DIA's product catalog and a production and inventory management system in Laravel/AngularJS for children's fashion brand Tuctuc.
RESULT — Multiple production systems still relied on region-wide by Catalonia's public education network, plus shipped e-commerce and production-management systems for other clients in the same period.
SaaS · Tax compliance
Cuadrio
Product build
+Invoicing SaaS for freelancers in Spain, compliant with the VeriFactu tax system.
SaaS · Tax compliance
Cuadrio
Product build
ROLE — Full-stack development.
PROBLEM — Spanish freelancers and expatriates need legally valid, VeriFactu-compliant invoices without wrestling with tax rules themselves.
BUILD — Built an invoicing platform that computes VAT and income-tax withholding automatically, handles cryptographic sealing and submission to the Spanish tax authority (AEAT), and issues invoices with official verification QR codes — with a bilingual Spanish/English interface for expat users.
RESULT — A production SaaS product handling real tax-authority submissions, EU-hosted with GDPR-compliant, end-to-end encrypted data.
Community · Sports development
Cricket.cat
Community project
+A community platform to promote and grow cricket across Catalonia — clubs, schools, and academies for ages 6 to 18.
Community · Sports development
Cricket.cat
Community project
ROLE — Web platform development for a multi-club community initiative.
PROBLEM — Cricket clubs across Catalonia needed a shared platform to organize clubs, coordinate youth academies, and give the sport a public presence in the region.
BUILD — Built the web platform behind cricket.cat, structured around individual clubs and city-based academies (including Badalona and L'Hospitalet), supporting youth programs for ages 6 to 18.
RESULT — A living community platform run collaboratively by several clubs, with a public presence across multiple Catalan cities and dedicated youth academy programs.
cricket.cat ↗Healthcare & Nonprofit · via nGloba Devices
Starstim & FundacioLar Systems
2012 – 2013 · via nGloba Devices
+Took over and completed two in-progress backend systems — a clinical data tool for a neurotech device maker, and a membership/donor platform for a nonprofit — after stepping in as a replacement developer.
Healthcare & Nonprofit · via nGloba Devices
Starstim & FundacioLar Systems
2012 – 2013 · via nGloba Devices
ROLE — Backend developer — joined mid-project as a replacement for a Java developer who had left, and completed the in-progress work for both clients.
PROBLEM — Two client projects were left unfinished when the previous developer departed: a clinical data-visualization tool for Neuroelectrics' Starstim device, and a membership and donation-management backend for the nonprofit FundacioLar.
BUILD — Completed the Starstim backend, which receives data from the device and visualizes it for the clinical professionals using it, and completed FundacioLar's backend, which lets the organization manage its members, track donor information, and control payments.
RESULT — Both systems delivered and handed over in production use — for a medical-device manufacturer and a nonprofit foundation respectively.
// Process
How I approach a build.
01
Discover
Understand the real constraint — compliance, scale, legacy systems, or a deadline — before writing a line of code.
02
Architect
Design the data model and API surface first. Most production pain starts as a schema decision made too fast.
03
Build
Ship in small, reviewable increments — in Laravel, Java, or whatever the client's stack already is.
04
Harden & Ship
Test the failure path, not just the happy path, then hand over documentation the next developer can actually use.
// Contact
Let's talk about your backend.
Open to full-time, remote, or hybrid backend roles — based in Barcelona, comfortable with occasional office time.
Recruiters
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Clients & Startups
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Agencies
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Or just say hello: armannadim@msn.com