SkillActor — Talent & Skill Management Platform

Project Type: SaaS Platform / Web App
My Role: Full-stack development – Laravel backend, Vue.js frontend, custom admin dashboard, performance engineering
Live: skillactor.com

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💡 Project Overview

SkillActor is a talent and skills management platform designed for HR teams and enterprises to track, assess, and manage employee competencies. The goal was to deliver a solid SaaS solution that supports large volumes of users, fast search, real-time data updates, and an intuitive admin interface.

🎯 Key Objectives

• Implement a multi-tenant SaaS architecture
• Enable fast and powerful search over profiles, skills, and assessments
• Build a dynamic, responsive admin area for HR managers
• Ensure real-time updates and efficient data caching
• Provide a scalable, maintainable solution with solid performance

🧰 Platform & Stack

• Backend: PHP, Laravel (API, authentication, business logic)
• Frontend: Vue.js SPA with Vue Router & Vuex
• Search: Elasticsearch for full-text and filter-based searches
• Cache: Redis for session storage, queue caching, and live updates
• Queue & Events: Laravel Queues and Events for background tasks and notifications
• Infrastructure: NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, managed via Docker / CI pipelines

🔧 Custom Admin Area

• 👩‍💼 User & Tenant Management: Create/edit employee profiles, assign roles and permissions, manage teams
• 📋 Skills Matrix & Assessment Tools: define skills, attach ratings, track progress and certifications
• 🔍 Smart Search: using Elasticsearch, enable filter-by-skill, keyword, department, rating
• 📈 Reports & Analytics: Generate team competency charts and export CSV/PDF reports
• ⚙️ Settings: Manage tenancy, email notifications, caching, feature toggles

📈 Performance & Scaling

• Redis-powered caching for session and query speed
• Efficient asynchronous processing with queues (e.g., email, notifications)
• Elasticsearch-powered full-text search with faceted filtering
• Vue.js SPA dynamic loading of modules and assets
• Docker-based deployment with zero-downtime strategy via CI/CD

🚀 My Contributions

• Designed and implemented Laravel multi-tenant architecture
• Built Vue.js SPA with clean modular components and state management
• Integrated Elasticsearch to support lightning-fast search and filters
• Created Redis-accelerated cache and queue systems
• Developed the custom admin dashboard with detailed analytics and export tools
• Deployed and optimized the full stack—server setup, Docker orchestration, HTTPS, backups

✅ Results

The finished platform empowers HR teams with real-time insight into skill distribution, employee development paths, and reporting. Search and navigation operate instantly, even with large datasets. Admins enjoy an intuitive and powerful interface, while the backend is robust and scalable.

📩 Interested in a Similar Solution?

If you need a talent or skills management platform—built on Laravel + Vue, powered by Elasticsearch and Redis—drop me a message via contact form.