£180k/year saved through automation
Infrastructure: £12k → £2k/month
Peak checkout: 60+ seconds → seconds
Six-figure stock exploit stopped
10,000+ products moved off spreadsheets
30+ table schema designed in 18 days
25+ engagements across sectors
The code making your money and the code scaring your engineers is usually the same code. That's where I work - across e-commerce, retail, higher education, legal, startups, and digital agencies. The problems are rarely unique to the industry - they come down to systems that have grown faster than the people maintaining them.
I'm hands-on and I get involved beyond the code - helping teams understand complex systems, reduce risk, and make better decisions when the trade-offs aren't obvious. I've shipped production work in PHP, JavaScript, Node, and Rust - and I built systems for years before AI tooling existed, which is why I can use it well now.
Recent work includes stabilising live e-commerce platforms, closing operational gaps, reducing infrastructure cost, building a multi-tenant Laravel platform from scratch, and improving workflows in business-critical systems.
I've been programming since childhood - BASIC on the family PC, dial-up internet, LAN parties, building my own rigs. Studied computing through school, college, and university, but I was already hooked long before that.
It's never just been a job.
Amarjit was Principal Engineer across two teams here, with checkout under him specifically. He made the architectural calls, not just the day-to-day ones, and he's the reason we finally got on top of a few checkout problems that had been ignored for years because nobody wanted to deal with them.
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Each of these has a story. Ask me about them.
PHP from Zero
PHP from Zero is a site I designed, built, and shipped solo - no team, no brief, no external deadline. Built to help beginners learn PHP with clear explanations and practical examples. It's a small proof of something I value: being able to scope, build, and ship a complete thing on my own.
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You've been a polyglot this whole time.
Ask most engineers what they do and you'll get a framework back.
My GitHub was a graveyard. So I deleted 30+ repos.
I started on GitHub in 2010. Last week I sat down and went through every single repo. I had over 60. I got it down to 26, with a few more still to go.
Working with me
The practical details.
UK-based LTD contractor, open to the right permanent role.
Sometimes the fastest fix is someone from outside - no history with the codebase, no stake in past decisions.
LinkedIn is the best place to reach me.
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