My name is Alecs. I am a senior PHP and Laravel developer from Bucharest, based in Hamburg, with 14+ years of PHP and 12+ years of Laravel experience.
I work on the codebases others avoid: legacy PHP applications that earn money every day and need to reach a supported version without a rewrite or a feature freeze.
Every change ships in small steps that can be rolled back; your customers never notice the migration.
Old and new code run side by side until the old part is replaced. No big bang, no feature freeze.
Where tests are missing, characterization tests pin down today's behavior before I touch anything.
A fixed-fee audit, fixed-scope upgrades – you know the cost before work starts.
From the first inventory to the release on a supported version.
From PHP 5.x to 8.x: find incompatibilities, refactor automatically, roll out step by step.
One major version at a time, including packages, configuration and dependencies.
Characterization tests where coverage is thin, and a CI pipeline that checks every change.
Schema migrations without downtime, slow queries found, legacy data models cleaned up.
Reproducible environments and deployments, so the upgrade doesn't fail on the server.
Remove EOL components and known CVEs, work through PCI-DSS or ISO 27001 audit findings.
A selection of recent work spanning e-commerce, SaaS, and bespoke web applications.
Laravel backend for a multi-tenant learning and certification platform that partners can resell. Courses are built in a drag-and-drop editor, exams are graded automatically, and certificates carry a QR code for public verification. Digistore24 purchases enrol buyers automatically; over 1,000 tests run in CI.
White-label, multi-tenant ticketing platform behind shops such as metaltix and soulticket. Ongoing platform engineering on a PHP 8.4 codebase with 14+ Docker microservices, PCI-DSS remediation and a Google Cloud migration with Pulumi.
Development on the learning platform (LMS) of BIWAK GmbH – Bildungs- und Wirtschaftsakademie in Berlin, a provider of vocational training and start-up coaching since 1995: Laravel backend with MySQL, CSS frontend and the server side (DevOps). The courses were imported into the systems of the Agentur für Arbeit (German Federal Employment Agency), a close partner of BIWAK.
Practical notes on PHP upgrades, Laravel and modernizing legacy applications.
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Read moreTell me which PHP or Laravel version you run and what's pressing – an EOL warning, an audit, a developer who left. I reply within one business day.
Tell me what you're building or where you're stuck. Pick a time directly from my calendar, no email ping-pong.
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