● Munich, Germany · UTC+1

Shahil Sham

Fullstack Engineer × AI Workflows.

I lead engineering at Ayunis / Locaboo, a resource-management platform for European cities and municipalities. Currently driving the migration of a mature CakePHP / MySQL system to a modern NestJS / React / PostgreSQL stack. Incrementally, in production.

01 About

15+ years building web products for European clients. Long stretches of PHP / Laravel / CakePHP, a growing share of NestJS / TypeScript / React. I care about systems that stay sane as they scale, and migrations that ship without breaking the people using them.

Lately I work AI-first: Claude Code as a primary dev environment, MCP servers for everything I touch (Tideways, Jira, Notion, MySQL, browser automation), and stacked PRs with Graphite. I build tools so I don't have to remember things.

I believe in understanding every tool I use, not just running commands. Methodical, confirmation-driven, always learning.

02 Work
  1. 2024 / present

    Senior Software Engineer & Lead Developer · Ayunis / Locaboo GmbH

    Munich

    Leading the incremental migration of the booking platform from CakePHP / MySQL to NestJS / React / PostgreSQL. Architecture, code review, AI-assisted workflows, team practices.

  2. 2014 / 2024

    Senior Software Engineer & Project Manager · BEO Software / LOY GmbH

    Remote

    A decade of fullstack work across PHP, Laravel, Vue, and Node. Shipped internal tooling, customer portals, and integrations for European clients.

  3. 2012 / 2013

    Senior Software Engineer / PHP Team Lead · Phases India

    India

    Led a small PHP team building client web applications. Early career foundation in shipping under deadlines and reviewing other people's code.

03 Open source
04 Stack
Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
Frameworks
  • NestJS
  • Laravel
  • CakePHP
  • React
  • Vue.js
  • Node.js
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • TypeORM
Platform
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Git
  • Graphite
Daily drivers
  • Claude Code
  • MCP
  • Cursor
  • PHPStorm
  • VS Code
  • macOS
05 Currently exploring
  • AI-assisted engineering

    Claude Code as a core dev tool, with MCP integrations for Tideways, Jira, Notion, MySQL, and browser automation.

  • MCP toolchains

    Building and connecting Model Context Protocol servers. Turning every tool I touch into something an agent can reason about.

  • Stacked PR workflows

    Small, reviewable units with Graphite CLI. Trying to make code review feel like reading, not archaeology.

  • Incremental platform migration

    CakePHP / MySQL → NestJS / React / PostgreSQL. No rewrite, no freeze, no downtime window.

06 Contact

Open to interesting conversations: fullstack engineering, AI workflows, or migrating legacy platforms without burning them down.