Dallas PHP Developer — Senior, Veteran-Led, Available
I am a senior PHP developer in Dallas, Texas. A PHP developer writes the server-side code that powers most of the web. I work on PHP 8.4 + Laravel 13 with a focus on senior builds and on modernizing legacy PHP codebases. Single-principal delivery, 25 years in computer science, U.S. Army veteran. Houston-anchored, Dallas buyers served remote with kickoff travel available for engagements that justify it.
Dallas as a buyer market for PHP developer work
Plano, Frisco, Irving, Arlington, Las Colinas, Richardson — DFW runs on Microsoft, on financial services, and on the Telecom Corridor. The dominant verticals are financial services, telecommunications, defense and aerospace adjacency, healthcare.
What I ship as a Dallas PHP Developer
PHP 8.4 + Laravel 13 builds, legacy modernization (PHP 5/7 → 8.4), PHPStan + Pint enforcement, Pest 4 test coverage, performance and security review. The engagement shape adapts to which Dallas vertical the buyer operates in — financial services, telecommunications, defense and aerospace adjacency, healthcare each have their own compliance posture, deploy posture, and procurement posture.
Who hires me as a Dallas PHP Developer
Buyers across financial services, telecommunications, defense and aerospace adjacency, healthcare. The credential stack — 25 years computer science, B.S. CS from the University of Houston, U.S. Army veteran — registers consistently across Dallas verticals. The single-principal accountability is the load-bearing differentiator: the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code.
How a Dallas engagement is scoped
Scoping call (free, 30 minutes). Written specification (1-2 weeks, paid). Two-week sprints with a working demo at the end of each. Pest tests alongside features. Handover with runbook and 30-day post-launch support window. Day-to-day work is remote; kickoff travel to Dallas for engagements that justify it.
The national PHP developer page
The PHP developer practice across the country, with the full scope detail, lives on the PHP Developer for Hire page. This page is the Dallas-specific entry — same practice, same engineer, Dallas-anchored copy.
Are you available for Dallas engagements?
Yes — one engagement at a time, fully present. Day-to-day work is remote; flying in for a 1-2 day kickoff workshop is workable for engagements that justify it.
What is your hourly rate?
Bespoke, scoped per engagement, written into SOW before contract. Pricing depends on engagement shape — hourly retainer, fixed-scope project, or agency white-label all have different rate cards. The scoping call produces a written total before anything is signed.
Do you work with financial services buyers in Dallas?
Yes — that is one of the largest Dallas verticals I work in. The engagement shape adapts to the compliance, deploy, and procurement constraints specific to financial services.
How is this different from the national PHP developer page?
Same practice, same engineer, same engagement shape — Dallas-anchored. This page exists for buyers searching by city; the national page lives at /php-developer with the full role scope detail.
Scope This Engagement
Single principal, plan first, working code on every checkpoint.
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