Hi, I’m Chris.

I’ve been writing PHP since 2010 and running Five Devs, LLC for years from my home office. Before Five Devs I ran a contracting business doing more or less the same work under a different name.

Most of my work lives in the same place: the messy seam between an online store, a warehouse, and a back office. Order parsing. EDI translations. Shipping rates and labels. Inventory sync. Carrier integrations. The kind of code that, when it works, you forget exists. When it doesn’t, you can’t ship a single box.

I’ve worked with companies like Pritikin Foods, Americold, Fortune Fulfillment, and HD Financial. Some of those engagements have run for years. That’s the part of this work I take real pride in, not the one-off fires, but being someone a small team can rely on for the long haul.

How I work

• Senior, end-to-end. You hire me, you get me. I read the code, talk to the people, ship the change, and write down what I learned.
• Boring tech, on purpose. Postgres, queues, plain PHP, small dependencies. Fewer moving parts means fewer 3am pages.
• Small PRs, fast feedback. You'll see what I'm doing every day, not at the end of a three-week dark period. Reviewing my work should take minutes, not hours.
• Documented as I go. Every change ships with a short note explaining why. Your team can pick the work up cleanly if you ever bring it in-house.
• Honest about scope. If I'm not the right person for the work, I'll say so, and where I can, point you at someone who is.

Tools I reach for

PHP (Laravel, Symfony, plain ol’ PHP), MySQL/Postgres, Redis, queue workers (Horizon, Supervisor), Filament for internal admin, and whatever JS makes the page render. On the ops side: Linux, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS, Cloudflare. I care more about the shape of the system than the brand on the box.

Sending a letter?

Sure. Fortunately no fax :)

Five Devs, LLC
1887 Whitney Mesa Dr. PMB 7325
Henderson, NV 89014
USA