Houston Laravel Developer — Senior, Single-Principal, Available

Houston buyers I work with

Houston is four economic verticals layered on top of each other. Energy and oil & gas dominates the Energy Corridor, the Houston Ship Channel, and the suburban operator footprint from Katy to The Woodlands. Healthcare and health-tech centers on the Texas Medical Center but reaches every clinic, dental practice, and specialty group in Harris and Fort Bend counties. Microsoft-shop enterprises — the .NET and C# stacks that dominate mid-market accounting, logistics, and B2B services — are everywhere south of I-10. Mid-market accounting firms are the fourth dominant buyer, and they are the most likely to need a Laravel developer who will treat their internal portal like the production system it actually is.

I have shipped Laravel work for a Houston-area accountant (the MaryAnnHairCPA portal) and a Houston-adjacent veteran nonprofit (Wallis Post 200 in Fort Bend County). Both are reachable from the case-study index. Both are honest about scope: small but real, shipped end-to-end, supported after launch.

If your business sits in the Houston metro and you need Laravel work, in-person discovery is available. A 30-minute coffee meeting in The Woodlands, Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, or the Energy Corridor is the right way to evaluate fit before anyone signs anything. I take that meeting for serious buyers within driving distance of zip 77001 through 77598.

What I build for Houston businesses

• Custom Laravel 13 applications. Internal portals, customer-facing tools, scheduling systems, claim-review workflows.
• Legacy modernization. WordPress, ColdFusion, classic ASP, early-Laravel codebases brought current to Laravel 13 + PHP 8.4.
• Microsoft-shop integrations. Azure AD / Entra ID SSO, Power BI embedding, Microsoft Graph integrations — Laravel as the application surface, Microsoft as the identity and analytics layer.
• Healthcare-adjacent applications. HIPAA-aware data handling, audit-trail logging, role-based access policies for healthcare-adjacent (not directly clinical) workflows.
• Energy-sector tools. Operations dashboards, exploration data review interfaces, contractor-management portals.

Why a Houston buyer hires me

Compared to a Houston dev agency (Bitcot Houston, Chetu Houston, the regional Praxent office, etc.), I bring direct single-principal accountability — the engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code. Compared to an Upwork freelancer, I bring 25 years and a B.S. CS from UH. Compared to a remote contractor in Bangalore or Manila, I bring the Houston coffee meeting and the same-day on-site option for an outage. Compared to a full-time hire, I bring zero ramp-up cost and a clear end date in the SOW.

Recent Houston work

MaryAnnHairCPA (Houston accountant — Laravel-driven client portal) is the most directly comparable engagement. Wallis Post 200 in Fort Bend County (veteran nonprofit — Laravel + Livewire + WordPress migration) is the second. Both are documented in the case-study index.

In-person discovery — what it looks like

A 30-minute coffee meeting, scoped before the conversation. Bring the codebase (or describe what does not yet exist), name the timeline, name the budget shape (or say "I do not know yet, that is what this meeting is about"). I take notes, I follow up the same evening with a written summary, and a written specification follows within a week if there is a fit. For sensitive engagements I will travel on-site within the Houston metro for the kickoff meeting.