Laravel & infrastructure generalist

  • £52-£76/hr
  • Part time
  • 7 years
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • GitHub Actions
  • Database design & optimization
  • MySQL
  • Docker
  • Linux server admin

Projects 3

  • Legacy monolith → Docker

    Part of a team of three

    Containerised a 9-year-old Laravel app, added CI, and cut deploys from 40 minutes of manual steps to 6 minutes.

    • docker
    • php
    • laravel
    • mysql

  • Reporting query rescue

    Tech lead

    Index and query rewrite work that took a nightly report from 38 minutes to 90 seconds.

    • php
    • database-design
    • mysql
    • linux-admin

  • Legacy monolith → Docker (second engagement)

    Sole developer

    Containerised a 9-year-old Laravel app, added CI, and cut deploys from 40 minutes of manual steps to 6 minutes.

    • docker
    • linux-admin
    • database-design
    • php

About

I take over neglected applications. Containerise them, add CI, harden the server, and fix the queries that are actually slow rather than the ones that look slow.