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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.…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.

Brandon Schmidt

Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, +2

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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.…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.

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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.

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Work Experience

Co-Founder & CTO at Loop Returns

January 1, 2017 - December 1, 2024

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.

Founder & Fractional CTO at FITIMI Labs

January 1, 2025 - Present

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.

Full Stack Engineer at Rocket Code

June 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017

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.