Experience

Independent contracting building production-grade e-commerce platforms with Laravel 12, Vue 3, Pinia, and Tailwind CSS 4.

Built Phasin'Land for my own apparel brand: a full e-commerce platform with an AI-powered Design Studio (Fabric.js 7 + OpenAI) for customer-created designs, real-time pricing, and content moderation, alongside Stripe payments (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link), a gift-card and coupon engine, reviews, and a full admin panel with Chart.js analytics. Architected around a service layer with async job queues, AWS S3, Sanctum auth, 2FA, role-based access (Spatie), and ATO/ACL/GDPR compliance.

Built Élara for a client: a global luxury fashion e-commerce platform selling worldwide, with multi-currency Stripe checkout (AUD, USD, EUR, ZAR), region-aware shipping and tax (GST/VAT/sales tax), customer self-service returns, exchanges, and ATO-compliant refunds, a customer portal with 2FA and GDPR export, and a full admin panel with revenue analytics. Hardened with a strict CSP, AES-256 field encryption, Stripe idempotency, and multi-region privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA, POPIA, APP).

Developed modular web solutions using PHP (Laravel), Statamic CMS, and Tailwind CSS for a digital agency serving 80+ brands. Created production-ready add-ons including a configurable Search module supporting multiple engines and a Font Awesome Icon integration, saving significant development time . Delivered live production website for Veteran Benefits Australia. Authored technical documentation and utilized Git, Bitbucket, Jira, and AWS in an Agile environment.

Developed and maintained web applications using PHP (Laravel) and JavaScript (Vue.js) with HTML and CSS (Bootstrap/Tailwind). Responsibilities included writing and maintaining code, developing APIs, debugging, testing (PHP Unit), and updating documentation. Utilized MySQL for database management, integrated Stripe for payment processing, and managed version control with Git. Deployed applications using AWS/Vapor.

Implemented and enhanced IT management systems while providing technical support to end users. Built web applications using J2EE (Struts 2), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. Designed and developed an accessibility platform that streamlined the accommodation request process for students with disabilities.

Provided software and hardware support for a retail network of 50+ stores, including on-site maintenance, system configuration, and server management. Developed Windev applications, optimized network efficiency, and managed database implementation and firewall/security engineering.

Performed software development and analysis as part of quality assurance processes for weapons systems, utilizing Python for testing and automation.