Case studies
What I've shipped.
Selected case studies from the past decade — full-stack builds, custom WordPress at scale, Laravel SaaS work, internal tools, and the integrations that connect them. Big and small, agency-led and direct-client. Search by name, role, or technology — or click a chip to filter to a stack.
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2026Designer & engineer
A static-first replacement for an over-engineered WordPress + WooCommerce setup, with custom invoicing, embedded Stripe Checkout, and Cloudflare Turnstile gating the form actions.
Astro 5 Tailwind v4 Cloudflare Pages Cloudflare Pages Functions Stripe (Embedded Checkout) Cloudflare Turnstile -
Project Profitability Platform
2026Lead developer
A custom internal tool built for an agency that needed to turn project-management data into financial reality faster than glued-together SaaS products could. Earned revenue, cost projections, and schedule variance across eleven internal metrics — backed by a multi-dimensional reporting engine, immutable revenue journaling, an integrated browser extension for inline time-logging, and a deliberate decision to keep every calculation deterministic.
Next.js TypeScript React Postgres Prisma pg-boss NextAuth.js -
Multi-Brand Multisite Framework
2025Primary contributing developer · Lead post-launch
A WordPress Multisite framework — parent theme plus supporting plugins — for an operation running many brands in the same vertical from a single parent organization. Site-level design tokens exposed as CSS custom properties, dynamic backgrounds with section-aware padding collapse, a custom site cloner, role-scoped admin interfaces that hide complexity from each user type, and a WCAG AA discipline baked into the brand-color schema rather than bolted on.
WordPress WordPress Multisite Advanced Custom Fields PHP Tailwind CSS CSS custom properties -
Destination Marketing & Listings Platform
2025Solo developer
A custom WordPress theme for a destination marketing organization — a single hub doing three jobs at once. Marketing the destination as a whole, surfacing a faceted-search directory of local businesses, and featuring events from an external calendar without owning the event-management surface. Built from Adobe XD designs, with FacetWP-driven listings filters, a deliberate section library, and a build pipeline that keeps brand tokens in one source file and propagates them to both the front-end Tailwind config and the WordPress block editor.
WordPress Advanced Custom Fields FacetWP Tailwind CSS PHP Laravel Mix -
Maureen Chiquet
2025Maureen Chiquet · Solo developer
A custom WordPress theme built from the ground up — Gutenberg blocks, ACF, no parent theme, no optimization plugins. The site achieves 100/100 Lighthouse scores on both desktop and mobile through architecture rather than after-the-fact tuning. All CSS inlined in the head, per-block stylesheets that load only when a block renders, ~660 bytes of total JavaScript on a typical page, LCP image preloaded via ACF data, variable fonts, and a WebP-by-default image pipeline.
WordPress Gutenberg Advanced Custom Fields @wordpress/scripts WP Interactivity API PHP WebP -
Convention & Visitors Bureau Site
2024Solo developer
A custom WordPress theme for a convention and visitors bureau in a regional destination city, translated from Adobe XD designs. The distinctive feature is structural — it's effectively two coordinated brands sharing one codebase. When a visitor navigates into the convention-center section, the entire visual identity (header, footer, palette, navigation, mobile nav) shifts to a different presentation, with tasteful pass-through links back to the parent brand. Detection happens via a page-tree ancestry walk, not URL hacks or per-page templates.
WordPress Advanced Custom Fields Tailwind CSS PHP Sass Laravel Mix -
Living Care Lifestyles
2024Living Care Lifestyles · Solo developer
A custom WordPress theme for a senior-living organization running four sub-brand sites in a single install — no WordPress Multisite. Per-community headers, navigation, and brand presentation driven by a taxonomy-plus-URL switching mechanism, canonical and SEO fidelity per sub-site, custom maps and floor-plan filtering, and a CRM integration with TalkFurther that lets editorial wire any CTA to the right form via a URL-keyword convention.
WordPress Advanced Custom Fields FacetWP Tailwind CSS PHP Laravel Mix -
Email Signature Generator
2020ApproveMe · Lead frontend developer
A free, no-login email signature generator built as a top-of-funnel lead-gen tool for WP E-Signature. Eight template designs, a live-preview wizard, copyable HTML output that survives Gmail / Outlook / Apple Mail / Yahoo. I built about 30 of the 51 React components — the wizard architecture, the template renderers, the animation system, and the state/actions layer that holds it together.
React React Hook Form little-state-machine Framer Motion Styled Components Laravel PHP -
Christwood Retirement Community
2019Christwood, Covington, LA · Lead developer
A pixel-perfect, accessibility-aware WordPress build for a Louisiana Life Plan Community — custom ACF component builder, hand-rolled SVG section masks, and a built-in text resizer for the audience that needed it. Shipped to a 3-week deadline and still running on the same infrastructure seven years later.
WordPress Advanced Custom Fields PHP SVG masks Bootstrap -
ApproveMe.com
2019ApproveMe · Solo developer
A multi-year build for the team behind WP E-Signature — managing a network of twelve interconnected WordPress sites without WordPress Multisite, via a custom global-theme infrastructure, an atomic CSS system that doubled as Gutenberg blocks, per-component asset compilation, and a coordinated sale-state engine that propagated pricing and merchandising across the whole network.
WordPress Easy Digital Downloads Stripe Advanced Custom Fields Gutenberg Atomic BEM PHP -
ApproveMe Contracts Library
2019ApproveMe · Solo developer
A 100+ contract template library and membership funnel — a sister site to the main WP E-Signature storefront. The architecture is the story — a bidirectional cross-site API bridge auto-enrolls customers across both products' WordPress installs in either direction, an in-theme paywall handles first-free / annual / lifetime tiers without a gating plugin, and AppSumo partner routing is built into the funnel.
WordPress Easy Digital Downloads EDD All Access Advanced Custom Fields Active Campaign Stripe PHP -
SignerX API
2019SignerX · Lead developer · Oct 2019 – Apr 2026
Lead developer for an in-flight Laravel SaaS API from 2019 to 2026 — shaped the codebase as it exists today through three major Laravel version migrations, a hybrid-encryption middleware that decrypts requests transparently to downstream code, 25 queued jobs orchestrating video transcoding and connected-service syncing, an event-driven workflow engine across 25+ domain events, and a 71-test feature suite that gates every PR.
Laravel PHP MySQL Redis (Horizon) Laravel Cashier (Stripe) Laravel Passport (OAuth2) Postmark -
SignerX Infrastructure
2019SignerX · Lead developer · Oct 2019 – Apr 2026
Inherited a struggling deployment pipeline at SignerX in 2019; turned it into a blue/green CI/CD with symlink-based zero-downtime swaps, queue-aware deploys, and dual rollback paths — then right-sized the underlying infrastructure to match a still-in-build-mode operation. Saved roughly $40,000 a year with no service loss, and bought enough runway for the platform to grow past 2,000 users before any of those decisions had to change.
GitHub Actions Cloudways Wasabi Docker Compose Laravel Horizon MySQL Bash -
SignerX Zapier App
2019SignerX · Lead developer · Oct 2019 – Apr 2026
A supporting connector for the SignerX API — a published Zapier integration that lets any SignerX user wire document-signing events into the rest of their stack without writing code. Built across both halves of the system — the Zapier app (Node + Zapier Platform CLI, OAuth2 with PKCE, hidden lookups powering dynamic dropdowns) and the SignerX API (extended Passport OAuth client for branded consent, response-shaping middleware to keep the Zapier app declarative).
Zapier Platform CLI Node.js JavaScript OAuth2 (PKCE) Laravel Passport Laravel -
Pacific Zen Institute
2018Pacific Zen Institute · Solo developer · 8-year engagement
An ongoing, multi-phase rebuild for a non-profit teaching organization. Started as a paywall rescue; grew into commerce, learning paths, a Gutenberg refactor, and a search-driven library archive. The throughline across every phase has been the same goal — liberate the team from lock-in and put control back in their hands.
WordPress WooCommerce Stripe Advanced Custom Fields Gutenberg (custom blocks, patterns, styles) QuickBooks API Mailchimp ActiveCampaign -
iFoundAgent Platform
2015iFoundAgent · Senior WordPress developer · 2015–2019
Nearly five years as a senior WordPress developer inside a real-estate-focused platform — proprietary IDX (MLS) integration, proprietary plugins, Genesis-based parent themes, and over 2,000 sites running across multiple WordPress Multisite networks. The work was a mix of network-level features, semi-custom child themes for the bulk of agents, and a few full custom builds for the agents whose brands warranted them.
WordPress WordPress Multisite Genesis Framework PHP jQuery CSS
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