Martin Lechêne

Full Stack PHP / Laravel / Google Cloud developer — Founder & CTO — Belgium, Europe & International

Profile

Full Stack PHP / Laravel / Google Cloud developer based in Belgium. Founder of DOG&DEV (web agency, since 2017), of Vetzy, PanelRP, Discobot and StreamCrea; CTO of Proporio — AI-assisted rental management for Belgian landlords, built on Angular, Firestore and Google Cloud Functions — and CTO and co-founder of Egonix Cards. I design SaaS platforms, APIs and high-performance web applications in PHP/Laravel, WordPress and Silverstripe. Available for freelance missions in Belgium or remote EU — contact me to discuss your project.

Skills

Angular · Cursor IDE · Git · Laravel · Livewire · MySQL / MariaDB · PHP · PHPStorm · PostgreSQL · REST API · SEO · SQL · Tailwind CSS · VSCode · WordPress · AI Agents · Bitbucket · Chromium · Claude · Docker · Firebase / Firestore · Google Cloud Functions · GraphQL · JavaScript · Jira · LangChain · NoSQL · OpenAI · Playwright · QBCore · RAG · Redis · Selenium · Silverstripe · SQLite · Stripe · Symfony · TypeScript · Android · Antigravity · Datadog · Embeddings · iOS · Lua · MCP · OpenCode · OpenRouter · PostHog · Power BI · Python · Sentry · Vue.js · watchOS

Languages: English · French

Experience

CTO — Proporio SRL

Jul 2026 — present

Chief Technology Officer | AI-assisted rental portfolio management for Belgian landlords and property managers: inbox triage, work organisation and one-click decisions

Technical architecture · Team management · Angular · Firestore · SaaS · AI integration · DevOps

Founder & Full Stack PHP Laravel — Vetzy

Oct 2024 — present

Veterinary SaaS platform for appointment booking between clinics and pet owners

PHP · Laravel · SaaS · Scheduling · UX · API REST

Trainer — My Sherpa

Jul 2024 — present

IT and web development trainer | Teaching PHP, Laravel and agile methodologies

Training · PHP · Laravel · Agile · Web development · Git · Docker

Full Stack Dev. PHP Silverstripe — MyConsultation.be

Jan 2024 — Mar 2025

Full stack development with Silverstripe CMS for healthcare digital interactions

PHP · Silverstripe · Full stack development · CMS · Web performance · Web security

CTO & Co-founder — Egonix Cards

Sep 2023 — present

Chief Technology Officer and co-founder | NFC business card platform: public profile, contact capture, company space and Stripe plans

Team management · PHP · Laravel · Technical architecture · DevOps · Project management

Contributor — TomatoPHP

Sep 2023 — Oct 2024

TomatoPHP community contributor | Developed open source Laravel packages | Contributed to PHP projects and technical documentation

PHP · Laravel · Open source · Community contribution · Technical documentation

Back-end Dev. PHP/Laravel — Gocar

Jan 2023 — Jun 2023

Backend Laravel development for automotive platform | REST API and microservices architecture

PHP · Laravel · REST API · Microservices architecture · Performance · Web security

Web Developer — Canell SPRL

Jul 2022 — Oct 2022

Web development with Symfony and Angular for enterprise clients | API integration and performance optimization

Symfony · PHP · Angular · WordPress · Modern web development · API · Performance

WordPress Developer — Roll Mops Interactive

Apr 2022 — Jul 2022

WordPress development for a video game studio | Gaming platform with timers and objectives

WordPress · Gaming web development · API · Performance · SEO

Web Development Internship — BeTheWave

Jan 2022 — Feb 2022

Integration of design for an existing project. https://www.jchubert.be/

Frontend · Design · Integration

PHP Developer — Lespreventes

Jan 2020 — Mar 2020

Creation and implementation of lespreventes platform

PHP · Web development · CMS

Front-end Developer — Bankizz

Oct 2019 — Oct 2019

Creation and implementation of a one-page for the musical artist: pingubkz

jQuery · JS · CSS3 · HTML5 · SEO · Bootstrap · SASS

WordPress & PHP Developer — QuelProjet

Mar 2019 — May 2022

Creation and launch of https://www.freelancefacility.com/ (WordPress), then of the TalentMuslim social network with PHPSocial

WordPress · PHP · Social network · SEO · Performance

Freelance Web Developer — DOG&DEV

Aug 2017 — present

Freelance web development agency | Custom web applications, architecture consulting and performance optimization

PHP · Laravel · Symfony · WordPress · Agency management · Web architecture · Performance · SEO

Personal projects

GitChat

Dec 2025 — present

Chat for developers on GitHub: a channel per repository, issue, organisation and team, from a Chrome extension

PHP · Laravel · Communication · Collaboration · SaaS · UX

Lodate

Sep 2025 — present

Date management and scheduling platform with reminders and clean interface navigation

PHP · Laravel · Scheduling · Productivity · UX

StreamCrea

Jan 2024 — present

Creator dashboard: Twitch, YouTube and Kick sync, multi-network publishing and a subscriber blog

PHP · Laravel · SaaS · Creator platform · API integration

Discobot

Jan 2024 — present

Discord bot platform: one bot, six plugins configured per server from a web dashboard, Free and Pro plans

PHP · Laravel · Discord · SaaS · Subscriptions

PanelRP

Jan 2023 — present

Platform to create a full ecosystem for roleplay servers and connect any games

PHP · Laravel · FiveM · Roleplay · Server management · Open source

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Institut Saint-Laurent

Jan 2019 — not completed

Programming / Computer Developer, General

Technical — IRSA

Jan 2015 — Dec 2017

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Certifications

TOSA PHP 3W Certification

2023

Score: 933/1000