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FULL STACK PHP DEVELOPER

ORÇUN
CANDAN.

I architect, build and lead production systems where backend scale, thoughtful interfaces and applied intelligence meet.

Orçun Candan — Full Stack PHP Developer

info@orcuncandan.com · Dubai, UAE

Experience

Al Multiple — Senior Full Stack Engineer & AI Integration Specialist

Oct 2024 — Present

High-traffic platform engineering and AI integration for a product serving hundreds of thousands of users.

Architected custom high-performance PHP and JavaScript application frameworks serving 500,000+ monthly active users, boosting platform Core Web Vitals.
Spearheaded AI strategy by integrating Claude subagents, skills and automated data pipelines across cross-functional content and engineering teams.
Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, establishing dynamic multi-tier caching and load distribution mechanisms.
Architected an air-gapped, privacy-first Local RAG pipeline using Ollama, DeepSeek-R1, Chroma Vector DB and LangChain across 50,000+ lines of PHP and relational schemas.
Engineered browser-based physical dimension estimation with JavaScript DOM/Camera APIs and custom reference overlays.
Developed Node.js and Python pipelines for web-data and workflow automation.

Turquoise Choice — Engineering Lead

Dec 2023 — Aug 2024

Technical ownership of the roadmap, the team and a legacy-to-microservices transition.

Owned the technical roadmap and led a team of 8+ frontend/backend developers and QA engineers; established clean-code standards and rigorous review protocols.
Architected a zero-downtime compatibility and data-migration layer bridging a legacy monolithic codebase with modern Laravel microservices.
Built automated end-to-end CI/CD pipelines via Azure Web Apps and Azure DevOps for cross-functional product squads, significantly reducing technical debt.

Ozkula Internet Hizmetleri — Full Stack Developer & Systems Engineer

Aug 2015 — Aug 2022

Seven years of full stack and infrastructure engineering inside a hosting / internet services company.

Architected a RESTful API integration connecting enterprise accounting systems with e-commerce platforms, automating electronic invoicing.
Designed a real-time, event-driven server health dashboard (AJAX, jQuery, CodeIgniter) tracking CPU loads across the fleet.
Handled low-level Linux troubleshooting and InnoDB partition repairs, and wrote Bash maintenance scripts automating routine server recovery protocols.

Atlantis Dekoratif ve Sanatsal Ürünler — Full Stack Developer

Oct 2009 — Jan 2015

E-commerce engineering — platform, inventory and dynamic media at catalog scale.

Engineered an e-commerce platform and inventory engine managing multi-variation SKUs with real-time dynamic image generation.

Selected work

Local RAG & Codebase Intelligence

An air-gapped, privacy-first Local RAG pipeline: Ollama + DeepSeek-R1 for inference, Chroma Vector DB for embeddings and LangChain for orchestration — instant natural-language querying of code and schema, with nothing leaving the machine.

40% reduction in manual code inspection time.

Computer Vision Ring Sizing

A high-performance web application using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript DOM/Camera APIs with custom reference banknote overlays for scale calibration.

Sub-millimeter precision across diverse mobile displays.

Zero-Downtime Monolith Migration

A compatibility and data-migration layer bridging the monolith with new Laravel microservices — both systems live in parallel during the transition, with automated end-to-end CI/CD on Azure Web Apps and Azure DevOps.

100% data integrity across millions of records · 3× deployment frequency.

High-Traffic Platform Frameworks

Custom high-performance PHP and JavaScript frameworks, plus dynamic multi-tier caching and load distribution on AWS.

35% faster page renders · improved Core Web Vitals · 99.9% availability under peak spikes.

Enterprise E-Invoicing Integration

A RESTful API integration layer connecting enterprise accounting with e-commerce platforms, automating the full invoicing flow.

10,000+ transactions automated every month.

E-Commerce & Inventory Engine

An e-commerce platform and inventory engine with real-time dynamic image generation for product variations.

7,000+ SKUs managed · 200% increase in online sales conversion.