Akshay S.

I’m Akshay, a Senior PHP Developer, Software Engineer, and Full-Stack Web Developer with 10+ years of experience building, fixing, upgrading, and maintaining web applications. I specialize in PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter, MySQL, legacy PHP modernization, bug fixing, API integrations, and AI-assisted development. I help businesses resolve complex technical issues, upgrade outdated applications, and develop new features while preserving existing functionality. With 64 completed Upwork jobs and Top Rated Plus status, I bring practical experience working with both modern and legacy web applications. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MY WEB DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. PHP & FULL-STACK DEVELOPMENT * Custom PHP and Core PHP Development * PHP Web Application Development * Full-Stack Web Development * Backend Development and Business Logic * Custom Business Software, CRM, ERP, and Admin Panels 2. LEGACY PHP & CODEIGNITER UPGRADES * PHP Version Upgrades and Compatibility Fixes * CodeIgniter 3 and CodeIgniter 4 Development * Legacy PHP Application Modernization * Deprecated Function Fixes and Code Refactoring * Application Testing After Upgrades 3. PHP, LARAVEL & CODEIGNITER BUG FIXING * Complex PHP Bug Fixing and Troubleshooting * Laravel and CodeIgniter Issue Resolution * Backend Errors and Broken Functionality * MySQL Database Issues and Query Debugging * Existing Application Maintenance 4. LARAVEL & BACKEND DEVELOPMENT * Laravel Web Application Development * REST API Development and Integration * Database-Driven Business Applications * Backend Architecture and Business Logic * Application Improvements and Maintenance 5. API & PAYMENT INTEGRATION * REST APIs and Third-Party API Integrations * Webhook Development and Troubleshooting * Stripe and PayPal Payment Gateway Integration * API Authentication and Error Handling * Payment Workflows and Transaction Processing 6. AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT * Claude Code-Assisted Software Development * AI-Assisted PHP and Laravel Development * Code Debugging and Refactoring * Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot Workflows * AI-Assisted Legacy Code Analysis 7. AI API INTEGRATION & AUTOMATION * OpenAI and ChatGPT API Integration * Google Gemini API Integration * AI-Powered Web Application Features * AI-Based Product Recommendations * AI Automation and Business Process Integration 8. DATABASE DEVELOPMENT & OPTIMIZATION * MySQL and MariaDB * PostgreSQL and SQL * Database Design and Maintenance * SQL Query Optimization * Database Troubleshooting and Performance Improvements 9. WORDPRESS & WOOCOMMERCE * WordPress Customization * Theme and Plugin Modifications * Custom Functionality and Bug Fixing * WooCommerce Customization and Maintenance * Third-Party API Integration ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TECHNOLOGY STACK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BACKEND: PHP, Core PHP, Custom PHP, Laravel, CodeIgniter 3, CodeIgniter 4 DATABASES: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL FRONTEND: JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap AI CODING TOOLS: Claude Code, Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot AI & APIs: OpenAI API, ChatGPT API, Gemini API, REST APIs, Webhooks PAYMENT INTEGRATIONS: Stripe, PayPal CMS & E-COMMERCE: WordPress, WooCommerce ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY WORK WITH ME? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ * 10+ years of PHP and web development experience * 64 completed Upwork jobs * Top Rated Plus freelancer * Experience with modern and legacy web applications * Practical debugging and root-cause analysis * API, payment gateway, and AI API integration experience * Focus on maintaining existing functionality * Clean, maintainable code and clear communication Whether you need a Senior PHP Developer, Laravel Developer, CodeIgniter Developer, Full-Stack Web Developer, PHP Bug Fixing Specialist, or Legacy PHP Upgrade Specialist, I can help you maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, and extend your web application. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LET’S DISCUSS YOUR PROJECT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Send me your project details, and let’s discuss the right solution for your business.