Christopher J.

I fix Laravel systems that matter too much to break, and I build new ones fast without compromising on quality.

Recent work:

• Stabilized a 12-year-old government tracking platform still in daily production

• Led a compliance-driven refactor for a financial services firm

• Built and launched a 140-tool production SaaS solo in four months, using AI coding agents behind a 20-year engineer’s architecture

Most engagements start with a fixed-scope Codebase Audit: $3,500–7,500, two weeks. You get an architecture, security, and data-integrity assessment plus a phased roadmap your team or I can execute. No surprises, no open-ended retainer until you’ve seen how I think.

Clients bring me in when:

• A system has outgrown its original design
• An AI-generated app has hit its ceiling and nobody’s sure what’s inside
• Mistakes are expensive: government, financial, medical, compliance-sensitive
• They want one senior engineer instead of four juniors

What I’m strong at:

• Refactoring and modernizing legacy Laravel and PHP
• Multi-tenant, role, and permission systems
• Data integrity, transactions, auditing, and traceability
• Queues, background processing, real-time updates, API integrations
• Shipping new products quickly with AI agents, without the mess they leave when nobody senior is watching

On AI: I use coding agents every day and they make me several times faster. They don’t make the architecture decisions, touch security, or decide what “correct” means. That’s the difference between an AI-built app and an AI-accelerated one.

20+ years, 25 Upwork contracts, 17,000 hours, 100% job success. US-based, remote, calm when things are on fire.

If you’ve got a Laravel system that needs a steady hand, or a new one that needs to exist by next quarter, let’s talk.