Key skill areas
Senior Software Engineer | PHP / Laravel / React
20+ years building web applications across agency, in-house, and freelance roles
David Hook
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years experience building, maintaining, and scaling web applications across PHP, Laravel, React, MySQL, AWS, and modern API integrations.
Professional Profile
Full-stack delivery grounded in PHP, Laravel, React, MySQL, and AWS
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years experience building, maintaining, and scaling web applications across agency, in-house, and freelance environments.
Career focus
Website Work
Selected websites and platforms I have worked on professionally
These projects reflect the commercial side of my career across agency and freelance work, covering e-commerce, reservations, multilingual sites, search, content management, and performance optimisation.
Experience
Career history across product teams, freelance delivery, and agency work
My recent work spans modern React and Laravel product development, long-term LAMP support for multiple clients, and freelance delivery for businesses needing dependable web engineering.
GitHub Highlights
Public projects that complement my professional web work
These GitHub projects show how I apply product thinking outside commercial roles: AI automation, desktop utilities, browser tooling, and interaction-heavy front-end builds.
Strengths
What I bring to teams
GitHub Projects
Broader public project history
This section stays close to the repo metadata so the site reflects current work without relying on a heavy runtime integration.
Education and Interests
Long-term technical grounding with curiosity for new workflows
Education
Interests
Open to opportunities
Looking for a senior developer who can modernise, ship, and support real-world web products.
I am David Hook, a Senior Software Engineer with experience across Laravel, React, PHP, MySQL, AWS, CMS platforms, e-commerce, and API integrations. If you think I could help your team, I would be happy to talk.