Specializing in Laravel & WordPress content management systems.
I help product design agencies build CMS platforms that match the designs they sold.
I'm the embedded developer sitting alongside your team.
Available on a fractional retainer to build powerful interfaces for your clients.
I'll agree the deliverables upfront, hit the milestones, and keep the surprises small throughout.
A steady hand at every stage of the project lifecycle - from initial prototype through to long-form partnership.
Want to see your project land well?
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 - restoring backups, analysing logs, getting things back up and running.
Arrange an initial call, then half- or full-day blocks available.
Getting projects back on track.
I step in at any stage of the project lifecycle, from untangling a vibe-coded prototype through 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 deploys.
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.
Recent agency and client work
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.
WordPressI 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.
WordPressEdinburgh design agency · 2.5-year embedded freelance partnership
Two and a half years embedded with a small Edinburgh design agency — two days a week, multiple client sites delivered. One of the cleanest examples of the long-term bench model I still sell today.
WordPressSide projects with real purpose
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?
Most of what I get hired for is CMS work. But I've always enjoyed exploring the more creative side of the web. Interactive animations, generative artworks, curious little apps.
The web doesn't have to be purely functional.
I love cubes. I don't know why. Something about the simplicity of unit-sided cubes sliding in and out of view — there's a precision to that which I find genuinely satisfying.
The experiments page has more in this vein if you want a longer look at the things I get up to when nobody's paying me.