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OTA Travel Booking & GDS Flight Ticketing Engine

Online Travel Agency (OTA) booking backend integrated with Global Distribution Systems (Amadeus & Sabre GDS) for real-time flight search, seat reservations, and payment processing.

OTA Travel Booking & GDS Flight Ticketing Engine
Role

Senior Software Engineer

Timeline

2024 — Present

Client / Domain

Enterprise Platform

Category

Backend & Distributed Systems

Core Technologies & Infrastructure

PHPLaravelRESTful APIsMySQLRedisOOP & SOLID Principles

Architectural Breakdown & System Design

# OTA Travel & GDS Flight Ticketing Engine An Online Travel Agency (OTA) backend solution designed for real-time flight inventory aggregation, dynamic fare rules, passenger PNR generation, and automated ticket issuance. ### Technical Achievements - **GDS API Integration:** Integrated Amadeus and Sabre XML/REST APIs for real-time schedule searches, fare calculation, and seat bookings. - **Asynchronous Search Aggregation:** Concurrent multi-provider queries with Redis caching to deliver fast search results across hundreds of airlines. - **Payment & Verification Flow:** Integrated multi-channel payment gateways with automated transaction reconciliation and webhook validation. - **Automated Ticket Issuance:** Background job queues handling PNR creation, e-ticket PDF generation, and automated customer email/SMS confirmations.

System Artifacts & Screenshots

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Md. Ashraful IslamSenior Backend & Full-Stack Engineer

Senior Backend & Full-Stack Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting high-throughput web applications, microservices, RESTful APIs, and enterprise ERP systems using PHP (Laravel), Node.js (NestJS/Express), Vue.js/Nuxt, and MySQL/PostgreSQL.

Core Technology Stack

Enterprise backend architecture and responsive web applications.

PHPLaravelCodeIgniterVue.js / NuxtMySQLREST APIsDockerLinux

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