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I’m a senior software engineer with deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony) and a track record of modernising legacy platforms, hardening developer tooling, and shipping reliable back-end services. I enjoy mentoring juniors, elevating team practices (tests, CI/CD, containerised development) and contributing to the community through meetups and conference talks. I work across modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure), design robust APIs (REST/GraphQL), and thrive on delivering polished, scalable software while fostering collaborative, coach-and-grow leadership within teams.…I’m a senior software engineer with deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony) and a track record of modernising legacy platforms, hardening developer tooling, and shipping reliable back-end services. I enjoy mentoring juniors, elevating team practices (tests, CI/CD, containerised development) and contributing to the community through meetups and conference talks. I work across modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure), design robust APIs (REST/GraphQL), and thrive on delivering polished, scalable software while fostering collaborative, coach-and-grow leadership within teams.

Robert Wilde

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Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, +6

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I’m a senior software engineer with deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony) and a track record of modernising legacy platforms, hardening developer tooling, and shipping reliable back-end services. I enjoy mentoring juniors, elevating team practices (tests, CI/CD, containerised development) and contributing to the community through meetups and conference talks. I work across modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure), design robust APIs (REST/GraphQL), and thrive on delivering polished, scalable software while fostering collaborative, coach-and-grow leadership within teams.…I’m a senior software engineer with deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony) and a track record of modernising legacy platforms, hardening developer tooling, and shipping reliable back-end services. I enjoy mentoring juniors, elevating team practices (tests, CI/CD, containerised development) and contributing to the community through meetups and conference talks. I work across modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure), design robust APIs (REST/GraphQL), and thrive on delivering polished, scalable software while fostering collaborative, coach-and-grow leadership within teams.

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Brisbane City, Australia

I’m a senior software engineer with deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony) and a track record of modernising legacy platforms, hardening developer tooling, and shipping reliable back-end services. I enjoy mentoring juniors, elevating team practices (tests, CI/CD, containerised development) and contributing to the community through meetups and conference talks.

I work across modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure), design robust APIs (REST/GraphQL), and thrive on delivering polished, scalable software while fostering collaborative, coach-and-grow leadership within teams.

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Senior Backend Engineer at Fletcher Building

July 31, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Led migration of a legacy Accounts Payable image archive from CakePHP 2.x to Laravel 11 with Oracle compatibility; designed and implemented a new Laravel 12 document-generation API (PDF/CSV/XML) with robust logging, error handling, and a browser-based template preview. Modernised a critical finance workflow, implemented modular backend patterns, and shipped reliable backend services. Created robust dev/local containerization and CI/CD support to improve deployment reliability.

Senior Backend Engineer at University of Queensland (UQ)

February 28, 2025 - October 15, 2025

Uplifted the Casual Academic Hire & Payment application: Symfony/PHP upgrade path (Symfony 3.3 / PHP 7.0 → Symfony 6.4 / PHP 8.3); integrated SAML/AWS services; authored Docker CI for multi-architecture builds; introduced Rector and PHP CS Fixer and planned upgrade path for future versions.

Senior Backend Engineer at Aurora Medical Software

October 31, 2024 - October 15, 2025

Stabilised a multi-app Laravel/Vue 3 platform for day-surgery bookings and billing; integrated with Medicare online payments/claims; refactored tests/config, improved Docker networking, and laid groundwork for modular Laravel architecture to consolidate backends.

Senior Software Engineer at Big Picture Medical

March 31, 2024 - October 15, 2025

Built a greenfield EHR-aligned backend from prototype to MVP; created a detached backend using Laravel Octane, GraphQL (LightHouse) and Nuxt; implemented robust login, data handling, and documentation; prepared for modular, scalable healthcare platform.

Senior Software Engineer at Room 40

November 30, 2022 - October 15, 2025

Delivered Magento ↔ Syspro ERP synchronization; upgraded PHP/MySQL; built staging automation; contributed across Java/C++ APIs and CLI tools; integrated Forge Viewer/WOPI and set up AWS SQS pipelines.

Software Engineer at Red Eye Apps

June 30, 2022 - October 15, 2025

Worked on a large Symfony-based digital asset platform; contributed across Java/C++ APIs and CLI tools; integrated Autodesk Forge Viewer/WOPI; upgraded Docker/Linux environments and supported AWS SQS-based pipelines.

Senior Software Engineer at Infoxchange

August 31, 2021 - October 15, 2025

Maintained and modernised a large CMS (SRS) with Laravel integration; executed migrations from PHP 7.0 → 7.4 and Laravel 5.5 → 6; built custom Codeception modules and upgraded the local Docker environment; implemented SSO.

Senior Backend Engineer at National Digital

November 1, 2025 - December 19, 2025

Led migration of multi-repo application to new staging/production environments; detached front-end React with Laravel 10 backend using custom Composer package and PDF-Transformer React app; built out servers, set up CI/CD with GitHub and Envoyer, configured services and monitoring.