PHP Software Developer

I build the backends, APIs and AI integrations your websites depend on▍

Ten years running a web agency, three as Digital Director of the Swiss e-commerce association, now a full-time PHP developer. I build the parts users never see: clean APIs, dependable integrations and AI wired in behind real safety layers. I listen first, explain in plain language, and stay with my clients for years.

Backend development APIs & integrations AI: orchestration · safety · RAG Open source & privacy

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Tandemteach.ai

An AI toolkit for UK primary teachers where safety is the architecture, not a filter bolted on at the end.

AI IntegrationAI SafetyBackendPayments Ø02

Hopelessly Sensible

A free, GPL WordPress security plugin that does seven things, explains each one in plain English, and stands down when it should.

Open SourceWordPressSecurity Ø03

Orto.ch

A hand-built WordPress shop for a social enterprise growing zero-kilometre produce. No WooCommerce, no payment processor, no third-party scripts.

WordPressBackendAPIs & IntegrationsPrivacy Ø04

SKL Invoicing and Tax Agent

Construction invoicing that knows CIS and VAT, with an AI assistant grounded in HMRC guidance and forbidden to guess.

AI IntegrationBackendPrivacy
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Open source

I am a massive believer in the importance of open source software; I build with it and always try to give something back. I have my own GPL-issued plugins, give my time freely, offering help and support in the Digital Charities and Pods Slack channels and, naturally, adopt Debian Linux as my personal desktop OS.

How I work

As simply as possible. Most of my job is understanding what you actually need, then making the technology disappear behind it.

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