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Alik Gushkan

Alik Gushkan

Laravel Fullstack Engineer

Haifa, Haifa District, IL
English, Russian, Hebrew

Background


About

About

Fullstack Laravel Engineer focused on building and modernizing business web systems. At "Clickeat" I lead development of a hosted, multi-instance Laravel platform for restaurant/delivery businesses, migrating legacy admin to Filament + Livewire, improving internal tooling for managers, and keeping deployments across multiple servers consistent.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Laravel Fullstack Engineer, 

    Dec, 2022 - Present

    Lead development of a hosted, multi-instance Laravel platform for restaurant/delivery businesses, modernizing admin, building internal tools and keeping multi-server deployments in sync.

    • Migrated a legacy Laravel admin (SleepingOwl) to Filament 3 + Livewire with no disruption to operators

    • Built and maintained 50+ Livewire components for order operations, reporting and manager-facing flows

    • Standardized admin/reporting UX for non-technical staff across many customer installations

    • Deployed from a single codebase to multiple servers hosting 100+ customer instances via DeployHQ

    • Drove technology choices (Livewire over htmx, Filament adoption, gradual React for dashboard scope)

  • Freelance PHP Developer (WordPress stack), 

    Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20234 years 1 month

    Delivered custom PHP-powered WordPress solutions with structured admin for non-technical clients.

    • Built ACF-based admin, custom post types and taxonomies to model business content

    • Developed custom themes/plugins and small PHP integrations

    • Improved performance via caching, assets and image handling

    • Maintained and upgraded existing client sites

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Admin Panel Modernization (SleepingOwl → Filament + Livewire)

    Jan, 2024 - Present

    Long-running modernization of the main operations/admin surface: rebuilding legacy SleepingOwl sections in Filament 3.x with Livewire, while keeping the legacy panel accessible until full parity was reached.

    • Migrated large legacy admin areas without service disruption for operators

    • Unified forms, tables and filters into Filament patterns for faster future feature work

    • Introduced ownership/audit traits and relation managers to keep data consistent across modules

  • Internal Infrastructure & Management Dashboard

    Jan, 2024 - Present

    Dashboard for monitoring and managing 100+ hosted customer instances: Laravel backend, Filament 3/4 for technical/admin operations, React-based views for managers/CEO, with email/SMS notifications for system owners.

    • Rebuilt legacy admin screens into modern Filament + Livewire structure

    • Separated audiences: Filament for sensitive configuration, React for business-facing analytics

    • Integrated with DeployHQ-based delivery flow across multiple servers

  • CRM Domain for Restaurant/Delivery Platform

    Aug, 2025 - Sep, 20252 months

    Full CRM domain first designed and implemented in SleepingOwl (leads, deals, accounts, contacts, campaigns, lookup/types) and later reimplemented in Filament 3.x as part of the admin modernization, keeping legacy access in parallel.

    • Modeled CRM entities: leads, deals, accounts, contacts, agents and campaign/status/type dictionaries

    • Implemented 20+ Filament resources with relation managers, tabbed/multi-section forms and ownership/audit traits

    • Kept legacy CRM usable while the Filament version was completed and integrated into the main admin surface

Skills

Skills

  • Core Laravel Stack

    Laravel 10+

    Livewire

    Filament 3/4

    Blade

    Alpine.js

    Tailwind CSS

    REST API design

    PHP

    Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

  • Data & Backend

    MySQL

    Eloquent ORM

    Migrations & schema refactors

    Query optimization

    Redis (caching/queues)

  • Admin & Internal Tools

    Legacy admin migration (SleepingOwl → Filament)

    Reporting UIs for non-technical staff

    Configurable business panels

    Admin UX patterns

  • Frontend (Laravel-first)

    Livewire component patterns (50+ in production)

    Alpine.js interactivity

    React (dashboard, gradual adoption)

    Vite build tooling

  • DevOps / Delivery (exposure)

    Git

    DeployHQ

    Server administration for Laravel apps

    Bash

    Docker (intro, local env)

  • Legacy / Past Commercial

    WordPress (2019–2023)

    ACF / CPT / Taxonomies

    Basic technical SEO practices

  • Tooling & Workflow

    Cursor (guided use, not agentic)

    Conversational development flow

    Codebase analysis & refactoring support

Education

Education

  • Business Administration and Management, IT Specialization, Bachelor's degree (partial), Ruppin Academic Center

    Jan, 2019 - Jan, 2023

    Design

    Web Design

    Programming

    Applications Gamification

    Databases Architecture

    Statistics

    Economics

    Marketing

Interests

Interests

  • Technology Exploration

    Emerging Web TechnologiesProblem SolvingOptimization Techniques
  • Digital Design

    UI/UXWeb DesignInteractive Interfaces