About Me

Lead Full Stack Developer with 9+ years of experience

Contact Information

+230 59603838

mushood.badulla@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Lead Full Stack Developer with 9+ years of experience building and scaling production systems and AI-powered platforms. Proven track record in leading distributed teams, designing end-to-end architectures, and delivering high-impact products. Strong expertise in AI integration, backend systems, and modern frontend frameworks.

Experience

MIVIDA, Port Louis — Lead Full Stack Developer (Remote)

Oct 2022 – Present

  • Led a distributed team of 6+ international engineers to architect, build, and launch a recruitment web platform, hire.breedj.com, now supporting 2k+ monthly users.
  • Partnered with the Product Owner and stakeholders to define the technical roadmap, translating business requirements into scalable solutions and accelerating feature delivery by 50%.
  • Designed and implemented the end-to-end system architecture (APIs, data flows, integrations), improving platform performance by 100% and enabling seamless future feature expansion.
  • Delivered core full-stack features hands-on, contributing to both backend and frontend development across critical user-facing and internal systems.
  • Implemented code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines, reducing production incidents by 50%.
  • Integrated OpenAI APIs to automate key workflows, reducing manual effort by 100% in some cases with clear workflows.
  • Built document vectorization and indexing pipelines to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), improving search relevance and response accuracy by 90%.
  • Developed scalable web scraping and data ingestion pipelines using Beautiful Soup, processing 30,000+ documents per day with automated cleaning, normalization, and storage.

AID, Paris — Lead Full Stack Developer (Remote)

March 2020 – Oct 2022

  • Led the end-to-end development of UNIXIA, a SaaS platform, aimed at unifying data across multiple channels and using it for marketing purposes. Delivered multiple production releases every 3 months, with a team of 5 developers.
  • Collaborated closely with business managers and stakeholders to identify operational pain points and translate them into scalable, user-focused software solutions including API integrations with Salesforce, Hubspot et Magento.
  • Partnered with UI/UX designers to define application flows and interfaces, improving usability and driving higher user adoption (50% increase).
  • Designed and implemented core full-stack features, contributing hands-on across backend and frontend components, with 50+ features delivered.

Esokia Web Agency Ltd, Quatre-Bornes — Lead Full Stack Developer

February 2015 - March 2020

  • Joined the company as a Backend Developer and progressed to Lead Full Stack Developer based on strong delivery, technical ownership, and project leadership over the span of 3 years.
  • Contributed to $10+ client projects across diverse domains, working with Symfony, Laravel, WordPress, and Drupal, and later expanding into React and Vue.js for modern frontend development.
  • Took ownership of end-to-end feature development, delivering scalable backend services and responsive frontend interfaces.
  • Led the full delivery lifecycle of 3 major projects, from requirements and specification documents through development, testing, and production deployment.
  • Collaborated with project managers and designers to translate client requirements into robust, maintainable solutions, consistently meeting deadlines and quality expectations.
  • Established development best practices, improving code consistency, maintainability, and team productivity.

Education

BEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of Mauritius | June 2010 - July 2014

Certifications & Achievements

  • Feb & Nov 2025: Speaker at Laravel Meetup
  • July 2020: Laravel Certified Developer
  • Dec 2019: Zend PHP Developer Certification