PHP Development
Custom PHP applications, plus rescue work on legacy codebases that still run the business.
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What I can help with
Twenty-two areas of work, grouped by the problem they solve. Each page describes what is included, how I approach it and, where relevant, what it will not fix.
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Web & Application Development
Building and maintaining the application itself, backend, frontend and the APIs in between.
Laravel Development
Laravel applications built the boring way, queues, tests, migrations and a deploy that works.
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Node.js Development
Node services, APIs and real-time features, plus the process management that keeps them up.
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Python Development
FastAPI and Django services, data pipelines, and the automation scripts that quietly save hours.
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React & Frontend Development
Accessible, fast React interfaces, and the plain HTML and CSS underneath that make them work.
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WordPress Development
Custom themes and plugins, and rescuing sites buried under thirty conflicting plugins.
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API Design & Development
APIs other developers can actually use, documented, versioned, and predictable when things fail.
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02
Servers, Hosting & DevOps
Everything under the application: Linux boxes, control panels, deployments, DNS and mail.
Linux Server Management
Setting up, tuning and looking after Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and CentOS servers.
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cPanel & WHM Management
Account setup, resource limits, email deliverability and the WHM settings that matter.
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Server & Website Migration
Moving hosts without the downtime, the broken email, or the week of mysterious 404s.
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Server Security & Hardening
Reducing the attack surface, then making sure you would actually notice a breach.
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DevOps & CI/CD
Deployments that are boring: automated, reversible, and identical every time.
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Cloud Hosting & VPS Setup
Choosing the right size box on the right provider, and configuring it so it stays affordable.
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Email & DNS Configuration
DNS records that resolve, and business email that reaches the inbox instead of the spam folder.
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03
AI & Automation
Putting language models to work on real workflows, with sensible cost and failure handling.
AI Development
Applied AI features inside real products, with evaluation, cost control and a fallback path.
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AI Agents & Workflow Automation
Automating multi-step work with tool-using agents, with limits, logging and a human in the loop.
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LLM & API Integration
Wiring language models into an existing product without destabilising it.
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Chatbot Development
Support and sales assistants grounded in your own content, that hand over cleanly when stuck.
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04
Performance, Security & Care
Keeping a site fast, indexable, clean and online after launch day.
Website Speed Optimization
Finding the real bottleneck rather than installing another caching plugin.
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Technical SEO
The engineering side of search: crawlability, indexing, structured data and site architecture.
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Malware Removal & Site Recovery
Cleaning a hacked site, closing the way in, and getting the warnings lifted.
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Website Maintenance & Support
Ongoing updates, backups, monitoring and a person to call, for sites that need to stay up.
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