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Christian Burgos

Backend engineer at Secuna since 2023. Ten years in PHP/Laravel and MySQL, three of them deep in vulnerability research and application security. Systems-first, patterns second.

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// about

I've spent a decade writing backend code — mostly PHP and Laravel, always with MySQL close by. I think procedurally even after years of OOP: I reach for the system and the solution first, then patterns only if they earn their keep.

I've been at Secuna since March 2023, working on a platform that sits at the seam of the web and security: researchers submitting vulnerabilities, clients reviewing and paying out, infra that has to be trustworthy by default. The same three years have put me on AWS (ap-southeast-1) daily — EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch in production — and watching real attack patterns up close has shaped how I build: application and infrastructure security as first-class concerns, auditability treated as a feature, and MySQL carrying most of the weight.

On the side I'm learning Go — building small CLI tools to internalize goroutines, channels, and idiomatic error handling. I've also touched Next.js, Vue, Docker, and Livewire. Frontend work I can do; backend is where I'm deep.

// stack

Core

  • ·PHP / Laravel
  • ·MySQL
  • ·Redis

Infra

  • ·AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
  • ·Docker
  • ·Linux

Learning

  • ·Go (Gin, GORM)
  • ·Goroutines & channels

Also ship

  • ·React / Next.js
  • ·Vue
  • ·Livewire

// what I do

Production backend at Secuna

Owning Laravel services, MySQL schemas, and AWS infra (ap-southeast-1) for a cybersecurity vulnerability research and reporting platform.

Internal DevOps tooling in Go

CLI tools for the team — learning concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, interfaces) by building things we actually use.

Data modeling & APIs

Ten years of MySQL fluency — schemas, indexes, query plans, migrations. Writing APIs that backend engineers want to consume.

Frontend when the product needs it

React and Next.js to ship features end-to-end. Comfortable in the codebase, but my depth is on the backend.

// projects

Secuna platform

Backend engineer

Laravel + MySQL services powering vulnerability research, researcher payouts, and client reporting. AWS-hosted, MFA-gated, built for auditability.

LaravelMySQLAWS

ByaheCalc

Solo developer

Calculator-only site for Philippine transportation costs. Stateless by design, URL-shareable inputs, SSR for indexability. Launched with 5 LTO fee calculators — registration, late penalty, plate renewal, ownership transfer, license renewal.

Next.jsTypeScriptVercel

Internal Go CLIs

Creator

Small Go tools for devops and ops workflows. An excuse to get fluent with goroutines, channels, and idiomatic error handling.

GoCLIConcurrency

// now

$ date

May 2026 — ap-southeast-1

$ status

  • · shipping backend features at Secuna
  • · leading AI transformation and enablement across the company
  • · going deep on Go concurrency (goroutines, channels)
  • · building small DevOps CLIs for the team
  • · keeping MySQL fluent, security tight across app and infra

// contact

Two ways to reach me. Both work; both filter the noise.