Anthony Protano

Senior Software Developer

Senior software developer with 6+ years of experience building scalable web applications with modern PHP and JavaScript frameworks. Skilled in solving complex problems, designing reliable systems, and writing clean, maintainable code. Experienced with CI/CD pipelines and effective collaboration across teams to deliver high-quality software.

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Experience

Senior Software Developer

Clevyr, Inc.

Oklahoma City, OK (Remote)

June 2023 – Present

2 yrs 4 mos

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Run frontline support for every client app—reply within 48 hours, get quotes out by day five, and close approved fixes in roughly 10 days.
  • Keep our riskiest production app alive as its maintainer and lead dev, pouring hundreds of hours into calming brittle SOAP integrations and killing repeat bugs.
  • Drop shared tooling upgrades (Sentry, Laravel Shift, Reverb, Horizon) into the stack so upkeep is less painful for everyone.
  • Mentor teammates through triage and maintenance work so more folks can ship fixes without waiting on me.
  • Loop in clients and PMs when the queue needs sorting so expectations stay realistic and escalations stay rare.

Portfolio support modernization

Pulled support, maintenance, and feature requests into one flow with clear expectations.

Problem

Triage, upkeep, and new work were coming through different channels, so priority issues kept getting buried.

Contribution

Consolidated everything into a single board, ran daily triage passes, kept the fragile SOAP-heavy app stable, and still shipped the backlog’s high-leverage fixes.

Impact

Held responses inside two days, quotes around five days, and approved fixes inside roughly 10 days while keeping clients in the loop.

Team Lead — Senior Software Developer

Leasecake

Winter Park, FL (Remote)

September 2022 – June 2023

9 mos

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Designed the lease-intelligence dashboard backend so it chews through 300k–600k row datasets in about 3–6 seconds for investor demos.
  • Framed out the Vue dashboard, then paired with the assigned engineer until they were comfortable shipping new slices solo.
  • Sat in senior engineering syncs to match roadmap work with fundraising deadlines and jumped into bug triage when the queue flared up.

Lease analytics dashboard

Guided a brand-new team through delivering the dashboard that Leasecake needed for investor conversations.

Problem

Leadership needed a metrics dashboard in about four months, but none of us had deep domain context and the data volume was steep.

Contribution

Led planning and mentoring, built the metric engine, and kept the squad focused so we shipped in roughly four and a half months.

Impact

Launched the dashboard in production—crunching big datasets in ~3–6 seconds—and gave execs something solid to carry into the fundraising tour.

Senior Software Developer

Clevyr, Inc.

Oklahoma City, OK

October 2020 – September 2022

1 yr 11 mos

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Ran the push to rebuild our 3D event-space frontend on a brutal timeline, lining up engineers, artists, and stakeholders the whole way.
  • Spent mornings in the code and the rest of the day running standups, reviews, and unblockers so the team kept moving.
  • Worked directly with execs and the client on scope, dependencies, and updates—launch hit, client was happy, and I walked away promoted.

Virtual event platform refresh

Shipped the refreshed virtual event front end on the timeline the client picked.

Problem

The 3D environment refresh had a fixed launch date, lots of moving parts, and a front-end crew that needed day-to-day direction once backend work wrapped.

Contribution

Coordinated the front-end devs, kept stakeholders aligned, unblocked issues, and still contributed morning coding sessions on critical pieces.

Impact

Rolled out on the agreed deadline, the 3D front-end experience ran without a hitch, and the client signed off without requesting follow-up fixes.

Full Stack Developer

Clevyr, Inc.

Oklahoma City, OK

September 2019 – October 2020

1 yr 1 mo

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js
  • Built a Vue/Vuex single-page app for a national sports org with real-time updates and responsive layouts.
  • Shipped new features across several WordPress sites using ACF, custom post types, and Gutenberg blocks.
  • Knocked out full-stack tickets in Laravel + Vue inside a Kanban flow and helped keep planning honest.
  • Hand-tested browsers before launch so we didn’t ship obvious layout bugs.

Full-Stack Laravel Developer

Liquid Fish

Oklahoma City, OK

May 2018 – September 2019

1 yr 4 mos

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js
  • Built a Vue/Vuex ordering platform with SSR and Algolia search for fast menu lookups.
  • Hooked up payments, content, POS, and social integrations (Stripe, Novadine, Heartland, Subscription Genius, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
  • Beefed up the in-house CMS with publishing workflows, role controls, and analytics so editors could actually get work done.

Contract PHP Developer

Century Martial Arts

Oklahoma City, OK

January 2018 – May 2018

4 mos

  • PHP
  • Slim PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js
  • Moved the Black Belt Magazine site off a creaky WordPress setup onto modern hosting with better stability, security, and editorial tools.
  • Built a real-time event sign-in kiosk with Slim PHP, Vue, and WebSockets so every check-in stayed in sync across kiosks and dashboards.

Skills & Tools

Senior software developer focused on dependable delivery, testing discipline, and collaborative engineering environments.

Core Stack

The tools I reach for first when building, shipping, and validating modern web products.

Core Focus

Backend Platform

Trusted stack for APIs, background jobs, and domain logic.

  • PHP
  • Laravel

Core Focus

Frontend Application

Typing-first client stack for rich product surfaces.

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Vue.js

Core Focus

Interface Layer

Styling system for accessible, maintainable UI.

  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS
Supporting Toolkit

Everything that rounds out delivery around the core stack.

Category

Product Engineering

Frontend and application frameworks that keep user-facing work fast and polished.

  • HTML5
  • SCSS
  • InertiaJS
  • Vuex

Category

Data & Integrations

Datastores and third-party services I maintain in production.

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Algolia
  • API integrations
  • CMS architecture
  • MariaDB
  • Stripe
  • WebSockets

Category

Delivery & Platform Operations

Deployment and automation tooling that protects velocity and uptime.

  • Composer
  • Docker
  • npm
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • Webpack
  • Laravel Shift
  • Renovatebot
  • Sentry
  • Vite

Category

Quality Automation

Testing and code-quality gates that keep releases stable.

  • Pest
  • PHPUnit
  • ESLint
  • Laravel Pint
  • PHP-CS-Fixer
  • PHPStan / Larastan
  • RectorPHP
  • Stylelint
  • Vitest
Additional Tools

Extras that surface less often but stay in rotation.

GitHubWordPressJestMentorshipSlim PHPSQL tuningTeam leadership