Waseem Al-Buqai

Modular Laravel 13 backend managing mosque operations, Quranic education (Halaqat), and community services across 10 isolated business domains.

• ▸Architected a Modular Monolith system across 10 isolated business domains using nwidart/laravel-modules.
• ▸Engineered an offline-first sync pipeline for Quranic Education — managing student profiles, attendance, and evaluation matrices under low connectivity.
• ▸Optimized serverless PDF report generation (<250MB on Vercel) by decoupling heavy typography assets.
• ▸Implemented Supabase cloud storage with pre-signed URLs for dynamic reports and isolated per-user caching.
• ▸Secured a 5-role access hierarchy (Super Admin → Parent) with JWT, module-level permissions, and full Pest test coverage.
• ▸Designed RESTful APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI pre-generated and committed to Git for serverless compatibility.

Professional football tracking application (Web + Mobile) built during my internship at Widespheres.

• ▸Versioned RESTful API with JWT auth, RBAC (4 roles), and Social Login (Google/Apple) via Socialite.
• ▸Automated Standings Engine (MatchObserver) — recalculates positions, goal diff, and trend after each match.
• ▸Player Season Stats via raw SQL (SUM/AVG/COUNT) for goals, assists, cards, and saves.
• ▸Transfer Logic Engine (TransferObserver) — internal, loan, and external moves.
• ▸Built and maintained Filament admin panels, streamlining content and league management.
• ▸Season-aware architecture with multi-season support and clean versioned API Resource layer.

A simulation engine demonstrating advanced distributed systems patterns — Saga Orchestration and Load Balancing algorithms — built with TypeScript and Next.js.

• ▸Implemented a Saga Transaction Orchestrator with automated backward compensation (LIFO), linear retry back-off, and strict promise timeout racing.
• ▸Engineered a Load Balancer supporting 12 algorithms: Smooth Round Robin, Power of Two Choices, Consistent Hashing (DJB2), and Weighted Least Connections.
• ▸Designed a decoupled state-driven architecture with real-time KPI metrics: CPU load, response time, active connections, and compensation failures.

• ▸3 roles: Admin, Department Staff, Citizen
• ▸15+ RESTful API endpoints across 20+ database tables.
• ▸Concurrent updates via DB locks and queue jobs.
• ▸Real-time notifications via Firebase Cloud Messaging.
• ▸Full audit logging and complaint lifecycle tracking.
• ▸Clean Architecture + SOLID + Service/Repository pattern.

• ▸Bookings, invoices, staff management, service catalog
• ▸3 roles via Spatie Permissions: Admin, Receptionist, Client
• ▸Async queue jobs for notifications and background tasks
• ▸Automated booking lifecycle with validation rules
• ▸Firebase Cloud Messaging for real-time alerts

Demonstrates 6 design patterns in a modular, extensible banking backend.

• ▸Multiple account types and transaction processing
• ▸Observer pattern for real-time notifications
• ▸Strategy pattern for interest calculation
• ▸Chain of Responsibility for transaction approvals