Muhammad Tahir Akbar

Technical Team Lead / Senior PHP Engineer

I lead backend teams and build PHP systems that hold up in production. 14+ years building backend systems and APIs, currently leading engineering at Oak Furnitureland.

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Oak Furnitureland

Technical Team Lead / Senior PHP Engineer

UK

Leads backend engineering on a PHP/Laravel/Symfony e-commerce platform — API design, backend architecture, and server-side A/B testing via Kameleoon.

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2022 - Present

$ stack

$ languages

  • PHP 8.x
  • JavaScript
  • SQL

$ frameworks

  • Laravel
  • Symfony

$ backend

  • API Design
  • Backend Architecture
  • Server-side A/B Testing
  • Microservices

$ tools

  • Kameleoon
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • MySQL

$ education

University of West London

M.Sc. Network Security & Mobile Computing

2013 - 2015

London, UK

Bahauddin Zakariya University

BS (hons) CS

2005 - 2009

Multan, Pakistan

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$ sandbox

Side projects and self-hosted tools — swap in the real ones.

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$ contact

Let's talk.

Open to technical leadership and senior backend engineering roles across PHP, Laravel, and Symfony. Based in the UK.