Laravel developer for hire.

Laravel is a good framework badly used more often than not. Most of the Laravel work I get called in for is not greenfield: it is an application someone else built at speed, which now has fat controllers, no tests, N+1 queries everywhere and a queue that silently drops jobs. I do both — build new applications on solid foundations, and stabilise the ones that are already in production.

What’s included

• Custom Laravel applications from architecture to deployment
• REST and JSON APIs with versioning, auth and rate limiting
• Queue, job and scheduled-task architecture that survives failure
• Eloquent modelling, migrations and query optimisation
• Authentication, authorisation, policies and multi-tenancy
• Third-party and payment integrations with proper webhook handling
• Taking over, documenting and stabilising inherited Laravel projects

Where Laravel projects usually go wrong

The pattern is consistent: business logic lives in controllers, so nothing can be reused or tested. Queries sit inside Blade loops, so a page that was fast with 50 rows crawls at 5,000. Jobs are dispatched without thinking about what happens when they fail. None of this is hard to fix, but it does need someone to work through it methodically rather than adding another feature on top.

Queues, jobs and the things that break at 3am

If your application sends email, processes payments, generates reports or talks to any third-party API, that work belongs in a queue. Getting that right means idempotent jobs, sensible retry and backoff, dead-letter handling, and monitoring that tells you when the worker has stopped. I set this up as part of the build rather than after the first incident.

Working with an existing codebase

I do not start by proposing a rewrite. I start by reading the code, mapping what it actually does, and finding out where the risk is. Then we agree what to fix first — usually security and stability — and modernise incrementally from there, with the application live throughout.