San Antonio Laravel Developer — Healthcare and Regulated Industries
I am a San Antonio Laravel developer building Laravel 13 + Livewire 4 applications for San Antonio healthcare, military-adjacent, and regulated-industry buyers. 25 years in computer science, U.S. Army veteran, single-principal delivery. Houston-anchored, San Antonio reachable by car within 3 hours for kickoff meetings in Stone Oak, Alamo Heights, downtown, or the South Texas Medical Center.
San Antonio as a Laravel market
San Antonio is the most-overlooked Texas metro in the engineering-services market. Most national agencies do not staff for it. Most Austin freelancers do not commute for it. The buyer pool — healthcare, military-adjacent contracting, USAA-adjacent financial services, regulated industries — has specific compliance and procurement postures that reward a veteran-led single-principal vendor.
The dominant San Antonio verticals are clustered: the South Texas Medical Center (Methodist, Christus, the UT Health System) is a 900-acre concentration of healthcare buyers. Joint Base San Antonio (Lackland, Randolph, Fort Sam Houston) and its commercial-contractor footprint dominate the military-adjacent surface. USAA and Valero Energy anchor the financial-services and energy verticals. Each of these has compliance constraints (HIPAA, DoD-adjacent procurement, FFIEC, OSHA, environmental) that rule out the "ship fast, fix later" posture most agencies sell.
The veteran credential matters more in San Antonio than in any other Texas metro. The procurement posture at JBSA-adjacent contractors, at USAA, and at veterans-services nonprofits weights veteran ownership and veteran-led delivery directly. The B.S. CS from a Texas university and the U.S. Army service history both register in San Antonio scoping conversations in a way they do not register in Austin.
San Antonio verticals I work in
- South Texas Medical Center healthcare-adjacent. Scheduling, claim review, audit logging, contractor portals, internal triage. Not directly clinical / EHR work.
- JBSA-adjacent military contracting. Subcontract-shaped engagements through a primed contractor on the unclassified side. No clearance work without prime sponsorship.
- USAA-adjacent financial services. Document extraction, customer-service triage, internal copilots for compliance teams.
- Regulated industries. OSHA-adjacent compliance tools, environmental-monitoring dashboards, contractor-management portals.
- Veterans-services nonprofits. Member portals, donation processing, event management — at nonprofit-aligned rates.
San Antonio geography
Stone Oak (residential / tech-employee dense, USAA campus adjacency), Alamo Heights (professional-services dense), the South Texas Medical Center corridor (Wurzbach to Fredericksburg Road), downtown / the Pearl (mixed-use, hospitality, increasingly tech-heavy), the Northside (USAA Drive, Valero campus, La Cantera), the East side and Joint Base San Antonio adjacencies. Each sub-metro has its own meeting-availability pattern.
What I build for San Antonio buyers
- HIPAA-aware healthcare-adjacent applications. Audit-trail logging, role-based access policies, data classification handling.
- Military-adjacent contractor portals. Document workflow, compliance documentation, contractor-management surfaces.
- Financial-services document extraction. Insurance forms, claim correspondence, member documents — structured data out.
- Veterans-services member portals. Authentication, event RSVPs, donation processing, member newsletters.
- Legacy modernization. Classic-ASP / ColdFusion / early-PHP applications brought current to Laravel 13.
Do you do clearance work for JBSA contractors?
Not currently — I do not hold an active clearance. Subcontract-shaped engagements through a primed contractor on the unclassified side are workable. If the work requires an active clearance, I will refer to a network contact rather than apply for one mid-engagement.
Do you work with veterans-services nonprofits?
Yes — and at nonprofit-aligned rates for veterans-services specifically. Wallis Post 200 in Fort Bend County (Houston metro) is an existing engagement; San Antonio veterans-services nonprofits would be welcome to follow the same engagement shape.
Will you travel to San Antonio for kickoff?
Yes — San Antonio is reachable by car from Houston in 3 hours. A 1-day kickoff workshop in San Antonio is part of several engagements. Day-to-day work is remote.
Do you take HIPAA-adjacent healthcare work?
Yes — for healthcare-adjacent (not directly clinical) workflows. Scheduling, claim review, audit logging, contractor portals, internal triage. I do not build FDA-regulated clinical decision support; that work belongs to specialists with the relevant certifications.
What is your hourly rate?
Bespoke, scoped per engagement, written into SOW before contract. San Antonio engagements are typically priced as fixed-scope-per-phase rather than hourly. Veterans-services nonprofits engage at separately-negotiated rates.
Scope This Engagement
Single principal, plan first, working code on every checkpoint.
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