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// service — development

PHP & Laravel
development _

Senior, hands-on Laravel development — without the agency overhead. I design, build and ship maintainable web applications and APIs that are built to run for years, not just to demo.

artisan
$ php artisan ship
→ migrating database...... ok
→ running test suite...... 142 passed
→ building assets........ ok
→ deploying............. live
✓ shipped in 4.2s

// what's on the menu

Capabilities

01

Laravel Web Applications

End-to-end product builds — auth, billing, dashboards, admin panels. Eloquent models, queues, events and a test suite that lets you ship on Fridays.

02

APIs & Integrations

REST and JSON APIs, third-party integrations, webhooks and payment gateways. Versioned, documented and rate-limited the way they should be.

03

Database Engineering

Schema design, migrations, indexing and query tuning across MySQL and PostgreSQL. Performance that holds up when traffic shows up.

04

Legacy Rescue & Refactors

Inherited a tangled PHP codebase? I stabilise, modernise and bring it under test without a risky big-bang rewrite.

05

Frontend & Tooling

JavaScript/TypeScript, Astro and Blade. Fast, accessible interfaces and the CI/CD plumbing to deploy them confidently.

06

AI-Augmented Features

LLM features wired into your app — search, summarisation, assistants — backed by clean data pipelines and sensible guardrails.

// how it runs

A predictable process

01

discover

We scope the problem, constraints and success metrics. No fluff, just a clear target.

02

architect

Data model, stack and milestones agreed up front so there are no surprises mid-build.

03

build

Iterative delivery in small, reviewable slices. You see progress every week.

04

ship

Tests, deploy, monitoring and handover docs. Plus support while it beds in.

// toolbox

The stack I reach for

PHP 8.x Laravel Livewire Blade MySQL PostgreSQL Redis JavaScript TypeScript Astro Tailwind Docker Git CI/CD

// ready when you are

Got a build in mind? Let's scope it.

Whether it's a greenfield Laravel app or rescuing something that's drifting, send the details and I'll come back with a clear plan.