Brian Mata
Software Engineer · Software Engineer · Las Vegas, NV
Full-Stack Software Engineer with production experience building transactional platforms, ecommerce systems, and third-party API integrations across React, Laravel, TypeScript, PHP, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Track record spans high-volume commerce workflows, idempotent checkout and payment logic, performance optimization, Linux infrastructure, and end-to-end client delivery from development through deployment.
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Attributes
- Level 52
- JavaScript — Vigor: 88 (Governs endurance — long releases, on-call firefights, and the will to see a migration through.)
- TypeScript — Attunement: 84 (Governs focus — many projects held in mind at once, context switched without loss.)
- PHP — Endurance: 86 (Governs stamina — sustained output across multi-quarter initiatives.)
- PostgreSQL — Vitality: 90 (Governs load-bearing — carrying legacy PHP and aging infra without complaint.)
- Laravel — Strength: 92 (Governs backend arms — Laravel, Node.js, PostgreSQL, the heavy weapons.)
- React — Dexterity: 94 (Governs frontend finesse — React, TypeScript, Tailwind; swift and precise.)
- Node.js — Intelligence: 90 (Governs data sorcery — Prisma, REST, webhooks, background job craft.)
- Docker — Faith: 87 (Governs infrastructure miracles — Docker, Railway, Linux, Nginx.)
- Python — Luck: 77 (Governs discovery — automation with Selenium, Playwright, and shell scripture.)
Skills
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Python
- SQL
- Go
- Java
Frameworks & Libraries
- Laravel
- Next.js
- React
- Svelte
- Astro
- Vue.js
- Node.js
- Express
- Tailwind CSS
Data & APIs
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Redis
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
- Background Jobs
Infrastructure
- Docker
- Linux
- Proxmox
- Railway
- WHMCS
- Nginx
- Squid Proxy
Automation
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Beautiful Soup
- Python Scripting
- Bash Scripting
Equipment
Right Hand: Vidana Studio Storefront
Next.js e-commerce blade
A storefront forged for Vidana Studio, sharpened with Next.js and TypeScript.
Full e-commerce flows wrought upon PostgreSQL and Prisma, a typed catalog adapter binding every edge. Fulfillment providers — Printify, Gelato — bound by HMAC-verified webhooks.
Optimized for the search engines of the surface world: sitemaps, server-side APIs, and SEO incantations. Deployed upon Railway, and there it stands.
Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Printify/Gelato, Railway
https://www.vidanastudio.com/Left Hand: Andean Artisan Coffee
A steadfast greatshield
Production site for Andean Artisan Coffee — architecture raised, deployment tended, maintenance sworn.
A shield does not glitter, but it holds. So too does this storefront, quietly serving the roasters' craft.
TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Railway, Nginx, React Framework
https://andeanartisancoffee.com/Ring 1: GP2040-CE Controller Firmware
Ring of the open-source covenant
Contribution to the GP2040-CE covenant — custom PCBs for low-latency arcade controllers.
Improved the React/TypeScript embedded configurator, and bound C/C++ firmware to hardware prototypes through the Raspberry Pi Pico SDK and CMake toolchain.
React, TypeScript, C/C++, Pico SDK, CMake
https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CERing 2: Remittance Automation
Ring of tireless labor
An automation wrought for Tix4.com — scheduled, multi-format exports for remittance and daily-sales reporting.
Where clerks once toiled by hand, the machine now labors. Manual reconciliation reduced by eighty percent.
PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Background Jobs, Slack API
Ring 3: Proxmox Self-Service Portal
Ring of summoned machines
Integration of the Proxmox REST API with WHMCS, granting patrons the power to summon virtual machines at will.
Provisioning, resource control, Squid proxy configuration, and credential generation — all automated in Python and Bash.
Python, Bash, Proxmox API, WHMCS, Squid
Ring 4: Mix → Vite Migration
Ring of the swift forge
Led the migration from Laravel Mix to Vite, with cache busting and Laravel/PHP upgrades in the same campaign.
Build times cut by as much as eighty percent. The forge burns brighter, and waits are shorter.
Vite, Laravel, PHP, Webpack, CI
Journey
Independent Full-Stack Web Developer — Freelance
Remote · Jan. 2026 — Present
- elivered two paid production websites—Vidana Studio and Andean Artisan Coffee—owning requirements,
- architecture, implementation, deployment, DNS, SSL, and ongoing maintenance.
- Built Vidana Studio from the ground up as a custom Next.js/TypeScript fine-art storefront with shop, product, cart, checkout, commission, account, policy, and responsive motion-driven experiences.
- Designed a typed catalog adapter that reads live PostgreSQL/Prisma data with a bundled-seed fallback, keeping
- products, collections, metadata, and sitemap consumers independent of the underlying data source.
- Integrated Printify and Gelato catalog imports, paid-order fulfillment, commission add-ons, tracking synchronization, and HMAC-verified webhooks with graceful credential-free fallback.
- Implemented server-only newsletter, commission, and order modules; per-route Open Graph/canonical metadata;
- data-driven sitemap generation; Prisma migrations and seeding; and Railway deployment scripts
Full-Stack Developer — Tix4.com
Las Vegas, NV · Feb. 2025 — Mar. 2026
- Shipped production features for a ticketing platform processing thousands of daily transactions, integrating
- Ticketmaster, AXS, NLiven, and Outbox APIs across inventory, seat maps, pricing, carting, checkout, and fulfillment.
- Reduced manual reconciliation by over 80% by building remittance and daily-sales automation for commissions,
- refunds, store/channel totals, and scheduled email delivery, with standardized CSV, XLSX, and PDF exports.
- Built guest checkout and accelerated payment completion by moving non-critical receipt work off the response path;
- added store-specific NMI merchant routing, terminal-payment fixes, duplicate-email prevention, and orphan purchase Slack alerts.
- Stabilized Outbox/Mystère and NLiven commerce flows by correcting discount, commission, ticket-type, quantity, Basket ID, external-ticket-ID, seat payload, and daylight-saving edge cases across web and POS.
- Modernized a Laravel application by leading Laravel Mix/Webpack-to-Vite migration work, adding React/Vue tooling, upgrading Laravel 12 and PHP 8.4, and implementing cache busting; cut builds by 60–80%.
- Improved POS workflows with FullCalendar showtime selection and no-refresh cart updates, reducing transaction time by approximately 25%; also delivered coupon analytics, GTM attribution, and responsive event pages.
- Collaborated in a five-developer agile team through pull-request reviews and coordinated with external engineers to resolve undocumented API behavior and production integration discrepancies
Junior Developer Intern — Sauce Servers
Remote · May 2021 — Aug. 2024
- Developed React landing pages connected to WHMCS for automated registration, billing, and service management.
- Integrated the Proxmox REST API with WHMCS modules for self-service VM provisioning.
- Automated proxy deployment with Python/Bash — VM creation, Squid configuration, credential generation.
Education
B.S. in Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso (December 2024)