Architected the platform that ran a Belgian real-estate business for five years.
Industry: Real estate / proptech. Duration: 5 years (and counting on residual work).
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What I build
Laravel that holds up in production.
Your app is live, people depend on it, and it was built fast - by a founder, a freelancer, or an AI. I make it stop breaking, then keep it running. New builds too, architected to last.
The pain
What this usually looks like.
- The app mostly works, but every change risks a regression nobody saw coming.
- It is technically Laravel, but the codebase has drifted into something nobody enjoys touching.
- A founder or an AI tool built it fast - it shipped, and now it is load-bearing and fragile.
- Performance and security gaps are starting to show as usage grows.
- New features take far longer than they should because of accumulated technical debt.
What I build
Concrete deliverables.
- New Laravel applications built with proper architecture from the start - services, jobs, queues, tests.
- Refactoring messy or AI-generated sections into maintainable, production-grade code - incrementally, not a big rewrite.
- Queue and performance hardening: Horizon, retries, dead-letter handling, N+1 queries, indexing, caching.
- Security pass: auth, authorization, input validation, secret management, the gaps that are probably already there.
- A testing harness that catches the regressions your team is currently afraid of.
- Documented patterns so future development is faster and safer - for your team or the next developer.
How it works
Inputs · Process · Outputs.
Inputs
Repo access (or a clean slate for a new build), a live environment to read against, and honest answers about what you're trying to build or what's breaking.
Process
New build: clean architecture from day one, small reviewable PRs. Existing system: a focused audit first, then incremental refactor - critical areas first, tests and monitoring added as we go. Your team learns the patterns so it keeps improving after I step back.
Outputs
A Laravel system your team is confident changing - well-structured, tested where it counts, monitored. Fewer surprises, faster iterations, lower long-term risk.
Stack
What we'd actually use.
- Laravel
- Laravel Horizon
- Laravel Pint
- PHPStan / Larastan
- Pest / PHPUnit
- Sentry / Bugsnag
- Redis
- Database introspection / query analysis
Pricing
New build or improvement work from €2,500 (typically €3k–€8k). Architecture cleanup or AI-codebase modernization usually starts with a €1,200 fixed audit - one week reading the code, a written punch list you keep - then scoped from what it finds. Ongoing support available, never required.
Exact price depends on operational complexity and how involved you want me. Every engagement starts with a short async intake - no call required.
Why clients hire me
Thirty years building on the web — for clients and for my own businesses.
Fifteen years of Laravel and Magento in production - new builds, inherited founder codebases, and AI-generated messes. I know which architectures last and which refactors actually pay back.
- First income online in 1997 - building on the web since I was sixteen.
- Built and ran my own Magento webshop and worked on ecommerce for over a decade.
- Grew a niche content site to 2,000-3,000 visitors a day and a 20,000-subscriber email list, with my own SEO and writing.
- Ran a Belgian real-estate SaaS platform for five years - architecture, integrations, and daily technical operations.
- Still building my own products today - SaaS, AI workflows, and the outbound infrastructure I run for myself.
Recent work
A platform that ran for five years.
Get in touch
Live, breaking, and nobody dares touch it?
Tell me what the application does and where it breaks. For inherited or AI-built codebases, the System Risk Audit is €1,200 fixed: one week and a written punch list you keep whether or not I implement the fixes.
Most things start with a short email - info@pawon.dev.