Backend
The core of my work: Laravel, Node and Python services structured the same way everywhere — thin controllers, business logic in dedicated actions and services, queues for everything asynchronous.
Good engineering is a system, not a habit.
I'm Abraham Porras, a full-stack engineer based in Guadalajara. I build multi-tenant SaaS platforms and tune the infrastructure they run on, plus the systems that hold all of it to one standard: encoded conventions, specialized AI agents, and tests before code.
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How I think
- systems-over-discipline
- Consistency shouldn't depend on willpower. I encode standards — architecture, testing, style, language — into layered configuration and a bench of specialized agents, so every project starts already held to the bar. My AI tooling is a factory, not a chat window.
- assume-breach
- I'm not a security specialist — I just refuse to design as if nothing ever gets compromised. Least privilege, segmented networks, secrets that never touch code, and the recurring question: if this piece falls over at 3 a.m., what can it reach?
- evidence-first
- Tests come before code; bugs are reproduced before they're fixed; obstacles are investigated, not bypassed. Claims about software ship with proof — a failing test, then a passing one, then verified behavior. Measure before optimizing.
- stable-contracts
- Design the second implementation into the first without building it: canonical data shapes, pluggable adapters, seams where change is expected. The seam is free; the speculation isn't. Extensibility and YAGNI are not opposites.
direction Where this is going: encoded standards, specialized agents, and local models as everyday leverage — for my own work and for any team I'm embedded in. Quality shouldn't depend on who's (or what's) typing. The system should carry it.
What I do
Frontend
Component-driven React with a bias for fast, understated interfaces — from design system to embedded page builder to desktop app.
Applied AI
Applied, not academic: I wire LLMs into real products — retrieval features, embeddings and vector search, PII scrubbed before anything leaves — and run local models where they hold up.
Infra & DevOps
Everything containerized, reverse-proxied, and reproducible. I run my own infrastructure to production standards — self-hosted, monitored, segmented — and treat security as part of the hygiene: least privilege, hardened containers, periodic reviews.
projectthis repo
stackLaravel · Node · static
basehouse rules, every project
Evidence, briefly
A few things I've built or designed, described at the level that matters. No client names, no internals.
What
Stack
Status
Parts search engine sold to auto parts stores as a white label,
with an AI sales assistant
Python · Flask · MongoDB
building
Operations platform for a language academy: admissions, classes,
Zoom recordings, invoicing
Laravel · React · Inertia · MySQL
live
Client portal: each client's proposals, progress and payments in
one private space
Laravel · React · Inertia · MySQL
live
WhatsApp assistant and staff portal for a driving school, with AI
over its own data and dashboards
n8n · Chatwoot · OpenAI · Metabase
live
Vehicle and fleet app: audit, hardening and a runtime migration
of a live production system
Python · Flask · MongoDB
live
Multi-tenant platform for professional associations
Laravel · React · Inertia
live
Shared component library across house projects, data grid
included
React · TypeScript · Tailwind
live
Infrastructure command center: runbooks, deploys, agent fleet, credentials never in code
Node · React · Docker
internal
Smaller builds, side projects and one-off fixes, mostly tools I made for myself or contributed upstream: PII-safe document retrieval for a multi-tenant insurance-sector SaaS, a fast photo-library triage tool in Go, a Telegram-native interface to an LLM assistant, a one-line ExoPlayer fix for an open-source Android TV streaming app, an interactive Unity/WebGL gallery, a soccer-stats dashboard with a sweepstake mode, and a private Discord music bot.
Where I've worked
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Aug 2022 — present
DeansList · Senior Software Developer
Making a large legacy PHP platform earn its keep — new features built modularly into it, custom web components with Lit, and keeping the user's view in every engineering decision
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Jun 2021 — Sep 2022
Self-employed · Software Engineer
Freelance tooling and websites — clinics and other small businesses
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Mar 2020 — May 2021
Rackspace Technology · Software Developer
US R&D team — internal tooling used across the company by other Rackers; React and Jest, features built from the ground up
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Oct 2017 — Feb 2020
Applaudo Studios · Software Development Analyst
AWS, Laravel, Magento 2 custom modules, CakePHP, Scrum
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Apr 2017 — Aug 2017
RoomieBill · CTO
Startup — pitched at Google Demo Day as part of the GSV Labs Pioneer Accelerator Program
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May 2016 — Feb 2017
Vander Group · Software Engineer
Laravel mobile APIs and database design
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Sep 2015 — May 2016
Artesanía Digital · Software Engineer
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Apr 2015 — Sep 2015
DVLOP · Web Developer
First dev role — where I learned Git, PHP and Laravel
Education
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2021 — 2023
Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara · Master's in Computer Science
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2013 — 2017
Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara · Bachelor's in Software Engineering
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2016 — 2017
freeCodeCamp · Full Stack Web Development Certification
Contact
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