hi, i'm utkarsh

i build backend systems and rehabilitate legacy applications that have been making questionable life choices for years.

software developer specializing in laravel, php, and performance optimization. usually found refactoring large codebases, designing reliable APIs, and asking 'who wrote this?' right before finding my own git blame.

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2+ years

of professional experience and an unhealthy amount of time reading stack traces.

100k+ lines

of php business logic, some of it even intentionally written.

10k+ users

depending on systems i help keep operational and reasonably predictable.

5+ modules

refactored because "we will rewrite it later" never actually happens.