When you need it sorted, fast.
I can isolate and diagnose production systems.
Set me up with appropriate credentials and I’ll get to work — backups restored, security tightened, lights back on.
One-hour diagnostic call, then half-day or full-day blocks booked.
Getting projects back on track.
I step in at any stage of the project lifecycle, from vibe-coded prototypes to production.
I get up to speed with your team and become your silent technical partner.
There for as long as you need me — polishing rough edges until it ships.
Hardening the shell.
For live operations.
I'll engage with your team, review your devops and stack, then prepare a full diagnostic report.
Performance, security, reliability — with the dashboard metrics to show it’s working.
Pulling Salesforce data into WordPress listings
I helped the agency Studio Simpatico implement a Salesforce-to-WordPress two-way sync for the Kurt Weill Foundation to keep the public-facing listings fresh.
Read the case study →I managed WordPress infrastructure and development
During my year-long WordPress partnership with The Story Exchange, I helped the team modernise their editorial flow and migrate the site to more powerful servers.
Read the case study →I run rescue campaigns for agencies on production stacks. Replatforms, re-integrations, rebuilds.
I'm the fluent technical partner sitting alongside your team.
I help designers deliver and editors feel at ease with their tools.
I give management confidence in the system.
I work primarily with Laravel, Craft or WordPress.
I do make use of AI as part of a modern workflow, not as a replacement, but to streamline development only when it fits.
We'll work together to ensure that all deliverables are clearly laid out from the start, that milestones are met and signed off and that you're happy throughout.
Want to see your project prosper?
These three case studies represent a broad sample of the expertise I can bring to your project. There's plenty of detail in each about the implementation.
WordPress maintenance retainer
I worked with Lumeon for many years, during and after agency involvement, helping them not only update and manage content templates, but apply a full website redesign on top of the original data.
WordPress · Editorial systems · Long-term partnershipCraft CMS Hotel website
A full Craft CMS build, delivered for The Merchant Hotel — a 5-star Belfast property. Also covered multiple other properties under the same parent operator.
Craft CMS · Twig · Multi-propertyLuxury furniture marketplace with Woo.
After working with the agency Freely for many years, I helped the founders build and launch a luxury furniture marketplace featuring high-end brands and editorial features.
WordPress · WooCommerce · Bespoke adminDemos completed as side projects or exploratory research projects. All of these use techniques transferrable to client projects. Ask me for more information on any of them.
A real-data Mars water-level visualiser. Drag the slider, the planet actually floods the way the elevation data says it would.
Six Verticals, One Engine
A single CMS that produces six wildly different finished sites (allotment, charity, council, museum, scout group, theatre) by tuning an LLM per vertical.
Every Glyph, No Faff
A no-faff browser for ~7,000 emoji, HTML entities and named Unicode symbols. Search in 15 languages, click to copy. Pure client-side.
I sit with your team, on calls, on-site if needed.
15 years of experience brought in to help solve problems.
I work with PMs and designers to clarify brief and UX.
We work in tandem to ensure the end product gets a clean hand-off and stays fully transparent to your team.
To kick things off, a 30 minute call to go over your current stack.
Sounds good? Let's get to it.
Book a call →Inherited stack, complex integration, project that wants a senior hand? Tell me what you're working on.
Replies from hello@solarise.dev. Pricing on request.
Want a steady hand on the codebase? Ready for senior support on the stack?