Everything in the controller
Business logic, validation and third-party calls all in one method, impossible to test and risky to change.
[ Development / Laravel Development ]
Laravel apps built to be worked on for years.
Laravel is fast to build in and easy to make a mess of. I write the version your next developer can extend — tested, queued where it should be, and without four hundred lines of logic in a controller.
Fixed scope · Tests included · You own the code
Fixedscope and price
Testswritten, not optional
You ownthe repository
Upgradeshandled safely
[ Why teams call ]
The codebases I get handed.
Almost always built quickly by someone competent under pressure, and never revisited since.
Slow requests
Queries inside loops hitting the database hundreds of times per page load.
No tests
So every change is manually verified, badly, and regressions ship regularly.
Stuck on an old version
Years behind on Laravel and PHP, so security patches no longer apply and hosting options are shrinking.
Jobs done in the request
Emails, exports and third-party calls handled inline, so users wait and timeouts lose data.
Secrets and config confusion
Credentials committed, environments diverging, and nobody sure what production is actually running.
[ How it works ]
Scope, build, hand over.
01 — Week 1
Scope
What it must do, what it integrates with and who maintains it afterwards. You get a written scope, a fixed price and a delivery date before any code is written.
02 — Week 2+
Build
Shipped in reviewable pull requests to a staging environment, so you see progress weekly rather than waiting for a big reveal.
03 — Launch
Deploy & document
Deployment pipeline, environment configuration, monitoring and a written handover so your team can run it without me.
[ What actually changes ]
How I build Laravel.
Nothing exotic. Framework conventions, sensible boundaries, and tests where they actually protect something.
Application
- Custom applications and APIs — REST or GraphQL, versioned, documented and authenticated properly.
- Admin dashboards — built to be used daily by real staff rather than demoed once.
- Queues and scheduled jobs — anything slow moved out of the request cycle, with retries and failure handling.
- Database design — indexed, migrated reversibly, and free of the query-in-a-loop pattern.
- Third-party integrations — payments, CRMs and internal systems, with sane error handling.
Longevity
- Automated tests — feature tests around the paths that would cost you money if they broke.
- Version upgrades — Laravel and PHP brought current, incrementally, with tests as the safety net.
- Deployment pipeline — automated deploys with migrations and a one-command rollback.
- Environment parity — local, staging and production behaving the same way.
- Written handover — architecture notes and runbook, so onboarding is not an oral tradition.
[ Example engagement ]
Legacy application, upgraded four major versions.
A business-critical Laravel app years behind on framework and PHP, with no test suite. Characterization tests written first, then upgraded one version at a time.
Illustrative example of a typical engagement. Figures vary with the state of your systems and are not a guarantee of a specific outcome.
4major versions caught up
61%faster median response
0unplanned downtime
120+tests where there were none
[ Free · no obligation ]
Get a scope and a real number.
Describe what you need built or fixed. You get a written scope, a fixed price and a delivery date — not a discovery call sequence.
[ Pricing ]
Pricing that fits your budget.
Tell me the number you have to work with. I'll tell you honestly what's achievable within it — and if it isn't enough, I'll say so before we start rather than halfway through.
Fixed project price
Scope agreed in writing, price agreed in writing, before any work starts. No hourly creep and no invoice you haven't already approved.
Monthly retainer
For ongoing work — maintenance, monitoring, updates and small changes. Month to month, cancel whenever, no minimum term.
Hourly for small jobs
For a single bug or a short task where writing a full scope would cost more than simply doing the work.
Budget too tight for the whole thing? I'll often suggest doing the highest-value part first and the rest later, rather than doing all of it badly.
[ Questions ]
Common questions.
Can you take over an existing codebase?
Yes, that is a large part of this work. I start with a review of what is there and an honest assessment of whether it should be improved or replaced, with the cost of each.
Do you write tests?
Yes, and they are included in the price rather than offered as an upgrade. Not exhaustive coverage — tests around the paths where a regression would actually cost you money.
Can you work with our existing developers?
Yes. I work in your repository, follow your conventions where they exist, and submit normal pull requests for review.
Laravel or something else?
Laravel is an excellent fit for most business applications and internal tools. If your problem is really a content site, WordPress will cost you less; if it is a high-throughput API, FastAPI or Node may fit better. I will say so.
What about hosting and deployment?
Included if you want it. Since I do the infrastructure work as well, the application and the environment it runs on get designed together rather than thrown over a wall.
[ Related services ]
Related development work.
Node.js DevelopmentAPIs, services and background workers that stay up.Python & FastAPITyped, async Python APIs and data services.Next.js DevelopmentApp Router, rendering strategy and Core Web Vitals done right.CI/CD & GitHub ActionsAutomated build, test and deploy pipelines with real rollbacks.AWS Server SetupProduction-ready VPC, compute, database and CI/CD from scratch.WordPress DevelopmentCustom themes, plugins and integrations built to be maintained.
[ Let's talk ]
Tell me what you're building.
Describe it in a few lines and you'll get a straight answer on scope, cost and timeline — same working day, from the person who'd actually build it.