SOLARISE
Freelance web development & consultancy
Stop worrying about your sites and your servers. That's my job.
Rescue and recovery for agencies who've been burned before. I put out fires.
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I've got you covered.
Backups, monitoring, security — support for your stack.
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At a glance.
Data dashboards, metrics, visibility — alert, only when you need to be.
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Someone's there.
15 years supporting clients, delivering reassurance and results.
Agencies & clients I've worked with
Studio Simpatico·
Future Studios·
Genoa Black·
Dawson Andrews·
Luminous Creative·
Webwise Creative·
Cornerstone·
Freely·
Blockdaemon·
Forward.com·
Haven Technologies·
The Story Exchange·
Nyde·
Tortoise & Black
I run rescue campaigns for agencies who need to put out fires. Replatforms, re-integrations, rebuilds. I'm the fluent technical partner sitting alongside your team — helping designers deliver, solving content catastrophes, and letting management sleep at night.
I work primarily with Laravel, Craft or WordPress. I compound effort with AI inside defined harnesses, so the work goes faster without going off the rails. No problem. No worries.
Inherited a stack that's struggling? Let's get it stable.
Pitfalls
Counter-moves
Habits
Laravel is arguably the most thoughtfully-engineered PHP framework ever shipped. Entire production stacks run on it — quietly, at scale, by developers who actually enjoy their work.
Does it hold up under load, edge cases, real businesses? Year after year, the answer is decisively "Yes".
Craft CMS is the editorial counterpart. It's a genuine content tool, a flexible platform — it bends to your brand instead of forcing the brand into a template.
Then there's WordPress.
WordPress is the standard CMS most agencies still run on. I take it seriously — production integrations, editorial sites, the Salesforce-to-WP pipes that have to hold under real editorial pressure.
I have been building on Laravel, Craft and WordPress for years. I have a deep understanding of where each fits, where each strains, and how to ship work that lasts.
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Builds
Three projects worth opening first — long-running partnerships, real production stacks, the kind of work that gets handed back better than it started.
Kurt Weill Foundation — Salesforce ↔ WordPress
WordPress · Salesforce SDK · ACFThe Merchant Hotel, Belfast
Craft CMS · Twig · Avvio APIFrontier
Experiments
Small, opinionated builds — what I make when nobody's paying me, poking at the edges of browsers, canvas, type and shaders. None are products. All have taught me skills transferable straight back into client work.
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DOOM, With a Working Contact Form
Forms can be hell to configure. So let's set one up inside the classic FPS video game, Doom.
html-in-canvas · WebGL · DOOM
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A Live Web App, On a 3D Monitor
Most product screenshots are flat. Most products aren't.
Three.js · html-in-canvas · WebGL
AI-Native CMS · Six Verticals, One Engine
I tuned one engine to ship six wildly different branded sites — copy, palette, structure all AI-shaped per vertical.
Laravel · Livewire · LLM
Tabletop Dice Roller
I built a realistic dice roller sim, with real physics, collisions, weights and faces.
Vanilla JS · Physics
Ocean HUD — HTML-in-Canvas
UIs that float on top of the action read as overlay. UIs that bend with the action read as world.
html-in-canvas · Three.js · Shaders
Castle, Wrapped in Type
I made an interactive editorial piece where the prose reflows live around a 3D castle, every frame.
Three.js · Type · Experimental
An HTML Form Made of Cloth
Forms are rigid. Most websites are rigid. The web wasn't supposed to be.
html-in-canvas · Cloth sim
Contact Form, C64 Style
I dropped a working HTML form inside an actual C64 emulator. You type, the BASIC scrolls underneath.
html-in-canvas · Emulation
A Form Inside Itself, Forever
A recursive form that contains itself — type at any depth, the form sees you back.
html-in-canvas · Recursion
Markered, Like a Real Highlighter
A small library that strokes text, images, or headlines like a chunky real-life marker.
SVG · CSS · Library
HTML Balloonification
Headlines that inflate, sway, and wobble like proper soft-body balloons.
Three.js · Geometry · TypeHow we'd work together
Embedded.
Predictable days each month. Your tools, your process.
The awkward integrations and the bits the designers shouldn't have to touch.
Managed delivery.
You bring the design and the brief.
I bring the engineering, the timeline, and a clean hand-off so your team isn't left maintaining a black box.
Diagnostic call.
60 minutes on an inherited stack you're worried about.
Honest read, no sell, written recap.
Book a call →Long Form
More from the fifteen-year archive — Laravel replatforms, WordPress integrations, e-commerce flows, editorial maintenance, modern web platforms.
Tour
CRM replatform · NDA
Tour Operator — Laravel CRM
Laravel · Drip API · Forge
Insurance
Identity + email
Insurance Tech — OKTA + Iterable Preferences
JavaScript · OKTA · Iterable
Eyewear
Prescription flow
Tortoise+Black — Prescription Lens Selector
WordPress · WooCommerce · Conditional flowNyde — Luxury Furniture Marketplace
WordPress · WooCommerce · Bespoke adminThe Story Exchange — Editorial WordPress
WordPress · Cloudways · Editorial blocks
Expenses
Platform · NDA