Brandon Schmidt
I'm Brandon Schmidt, a Laravel/PHP backend specialist with 10+ years building and stabilizing high-traffic e-commerce systems.
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I’m Brandon Schmidt, a Laravel/PHP backend specialist with 10+ years building and stabilizing high-traffic e-commerce systems. I’ve designed checkout flows and payment integrations processing billions in transactions at Loop Returns, scaling from a rapid MVP to an enterprise platform serving 5,000+ brands. I thrive in production debugging, database optimization, and refactoring legacy code for performance and maintainability.
I’ve led on-call incident response, monitoring, and reliability initiatives that achieved 99.9%+ uptime, and grown an engineering team from 3 to 60 while establishing coding standards and best practices. Currently, I’m delivering hands-on Laravel/PHP development for FITIMI Labs as Founder/Fractional CTO and pursuing full-stack growth with React and Python on CarePath.
- 11 years' experience
- Joined January 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Retail
- Professional Services
Work experience
Delivering hands-on Laravel/PHP development for multiple clients while providing fractional CTO services focused on technical strategy and system architecture. Currently building a React frontend and contributing to a Python backend for CarePath, demonstrating continued full-stack depth.
Designed and built a complete checkout flow and order processing system from scratch, integrating Stripe and Shopify payment processors while supporting multi-store configurations to meet diverse merchants' requirements. Debugged and resolved critical production issues including slow database queries, inefficient queue processing, and third-party API latency impacting real user transactions. Implemented on-call rotation and incident response procedures, establishing monitoring and alerting systems that maintained 99.9%+ uptime for mission-critical e-commerce operations.
Built Shopify e-commerce applications using PHP and Ruby on Rails backends with frontend frameworks, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing retail solutions.
Education
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