Frank L.

Senior Laravel engineer. I own the hard parts.

Most recently, I owned the financial integration layer for an enterprise Transportation Management System: payables and receivables sync, carrier payment reconciliation, credit and debit adjustments across 110+ merged pull requests reviewed by the company's Principal Architect. Their architect's words: "when Frank picks something up, I stop worrying about it."

I also build and run complete SaaS products solo: backend, frontend, payments, infrastructure, and the programmatic SEO that brings in the traffic. So you get someone who works well inside an existing team and codebase, and who can also take a project and own it end to end.

Where I help most
• Money-critical code: Stripe billing, subscriptions, payment reconciliation, third-party financial APIs
• Rescue or scale a stalled, inherited, or legacy Laravel project
• Build and launch a complete SaaS product: multi-tenant, billing, the works
• Add AI features to an existing app (Gemini, OpenAI, Google APIs)
• Custom admin panels and internal tools (Laravel + Filament)
• Programmatic SEO and lead-gen systems that rank and convert

Track record
• 20+ years building for the web · Top Rated Plus · 100% Job Success · 3,900+ hours
• 110+ PRs merged on an enterprise TMS under senior review
• A multi-tenant SaaS I built and operate solo: 70,000 pages live, ~250,000 Google impressions a week

My stack
Laravel, Livewire, Filament, PHP, MySQL, Redis · Vue.js, Alpine.js, Tailwind · Stripe/Cashier, Google Gemini & APIs · Docker, nginx, DigitalOcean, CI/CD · Pest/PHPUnit · REST APIs, webhooks, queues

How I work
I start with the business outcome, not the ticket. You get a clear plan with milestones, progress you can see week to week, and code your team can pick up after I'm gone. For a critical third-party integration at my last role, I checked the vendor's API spec against real production traffic, captured that traffic, and built an automated test suite around it that's the level I work at.

Tell me what you're building or what's broken, and I'll tell you how I'd approach it. No obligation.