Open to remote senior roles
San Diego, CA · US citizen
Senior PHP & Laravel Engineer
I design and build Laravel platforms, APIs and WordPress systems that keep working long after launch.
About
I’m Juan, a self-taught engineer who grew from web developer to software architect at DesignStudio Network over twelve years. I like owning the whole problem: the data model, the API, the deploy pipeline, and the runbook the next person reads.
Stack
PHP 8 · Laravel · Eloquent · queues & scheduling · REST APIs · MySQL · RBAC
Vue.js 3 · Inertia · JavaScript · HTML · CSS
Custom plugins · WooCommerce · WP-Cron · content at scale
PHPUnit · Pest · Playwright · Docker · GitHub Actions · AWS · DigitalOcean
Selected work
Laravel · Vue.js · Marketplace MVP
A freelancer portfolio and digital-product marketplace. I built the original WordPress proof of concept, then architected the Laravel rebuild with a Vue.js frontend and implemented the backend, doing most of the development: custom profiles, digital-product management and sales workflows, permissions and project workflows.
mvp.designstudio.com ↗Laravel · WordPress · API
A content-syndication platform and API I architected and owned for about seven years. A custom plugin turns JSON and Vue templates into pages and WooCommerce products across 300+ WordPress sites, with scheduled publishing, backups, rollback and alerts.
Laravel · Vue · Inertia
Agency operations app I built and use in my freelance work: projects, time tracking, client portals, proposals and profitability, tested with PHPUnit and Playwright.
mnrkapp.com ↗WordPress · OAuth
Open-source WordPress email plugin with Google/Microsoft OAuth, backup connections, encrypted credentials and delivery diagnostics. Running live on Google.
GitHub ↗Laravel · Vue 3
Visual form builder with conditional logic and multi-page flows that exports standalone HTML, CSS and JS.
GitHub ↗Laravel · PHP GD
Self-hosted batch image optimizer: compress, resize and convert to JPEG, PNG or WebP with before/after previews and ZIP downloads.
GitHub ↗400 more client projects, delivered over 12 years with DesignStudio Network agency (2014–2026) and for the American Red Cross
Experience
Architected Syndified and a Laravel/Vue marketplace MVP, led an AWS→DigitalOcean migration (~30% cheaper), set up Docker and GitHub Actions pipelines, mentored developers.
Built scheduled publishing, an ad-spend and hours reporting dashboard, and WooCommerce ERP/CRM integrations.
Client applications, WordPress plugins and long-term maintenance.
Custom PHP/MySQL apps, an auction platform with proxy bidding, and member websites.
AI-assisted workflow
In-editor pairing for multi-file refactors and fast iteration on Laravel and Vue code.
Terminal agent for planning, implementing and testing features end to end.
Parallel tasks and second-opinion reviews on pull requests.
Every diff read, tested with PHPUnit and Playwright, and owned by me.
Define the plan and expected behavior before any code is generated.
Pair with Cursor, Claude Code and Codex for implementation and refactors.
Read every diff, run PHPUnit and Playwright, and debug what the tools miss.
CI on GitHub Actions, then a deploy I can roll back.
Contact
Hiring a senior Laravel or full-stack engineer? I’d like to hear about the role.