--- title: Building with Laravel for Ecommerce. The Artisan of the... description: Gulzar Ahmed, CTO of Hyperzod, shares his decade-long journey in software development, from freelance PHP work to leading engineering for a quick commerce... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-with-laravel-for-ecommerce-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-gulzar-ahmed--tzkfgehls twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building with Laravel for Ecommerce. The Artisan of the Day Is Gulzar Ahmed. | daily.dev og:description: Gulzar Ahmed, CTO of Hyperzod, shares his decade-long journey in software development, from freelance PHP work to leading engineering for a quick commerce... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-with-laravel-for-ecommerce-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-gulzar-ahmed--tzkfgehls og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tzkfGeHls.png og:image:alt: Building with Laravel for Ecommerce. The Artisan of the Day Is Gulzar Ahmed. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building with Laravel for Ecommerce. The Artisan of the Day Is Gulzar Ahmed. **[Laravel](https://daily.dev/sources/laravel)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Gulzar Ahmed, CTO of Hyperzod, shares his decade-long journey in software development, from freelance PHP work to leading engineering for a quick commerce platform. He discovered Laravel in 2015 and now builds everything with it, including Hyperzod's 50+ microservices that process thousands of daily orders. The platform powers on-demand delivery businesses with admin dashboards, payment integrations, and AI-powered fleet management. Gulzar actively mentors developers, contributes to Laravel's open source ecosystem, and emphasizes the importance of understanding business problems over just writing code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Fixing Errors and Empowering Laravel Artisans. The Artisan of the Day Is Punyapal Shah.](https://daily.dev/posts/fixing-errors-and-empowering-laravel-artisans-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-punyapal-shah--yztxs9n4f) · Laravel · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building Scalable Laravel Systems. The Artisan of the Day Is Lucas Giovanny.](https://daily.dev/posts/building-scalable-laravel-systems-the-artisan-of-the-day-is-lucas-giovanny--6kgylmvpn) · Laravel · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building with Laravel for Impact. 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