Samboat - Online Boat Rental Marketplace

• Application maintenance and development of new features
• Development and evolution of booking and payment flows
• Work on listings, search, users and administration tools
• Integration of payment, payout and insurance solutions
• Integration of AI-powered features
• Development of an AI-based automated message moderation system
• Creation of an automated system for summarizing listing reviews and comments
• Development of invoicing features and PDF document generation
• Bug fixing and improvement of existing business features
• Implementation and maintenance of unit, functional and end-to-end tests
• Test optimization and parallelization within CI/CD pipelines
• Contribution to the maintenance and evolution of an application with a broad functional scope

I worked at SamBoat for nearly two years, a marketplace specializing in boat rentals between private owners and professional operators. I mainly worked on the development and maintenance of the PHP/Laravel web application across a wide range of areas, including bookings, payments, listings, search, users, invoicing, administration and owner payouts.

I worked on payment integrations with MangoPay and Adyen, as well as insurance services. I also developed several AI-powered features, including an automated message moderation system and a listing review summarization tool, initially designed as an AI assistant.

A significant part of my work focused on business logic, invoice and PDF generation, and application reliability. I also contributed to automated testing with PHPUnit and Laravel Dusk, and to improving CI pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines.

This experience allowed me to work across a complex marketplace, combining business features, payments, AI integrations, testing, performance and application maintainability.