More work than people? I can help.
An experienced developer you can hand a job to and stop worrying about. On deadline, on brief, and never in front of your client unless you want me to be.
Who I am
I've been building for the web since 1999, including twenty years in-house running the web side of a national online retailer. That means I've lived with the consequences of my own code: the Black Friday traffic, the payment provider changes, the integrations that have to keep working at 3am.
Most of my work now is overflow for agencies, and most of it is under NDA, which is why you won't find it in my portfolio. What you will find is what the agencies I work with say about me.
What I take on
- Shopify builds, theme work and app integrations
- WordPress and WooCommerce, new builds and rescues
- Webflow, Wix and Squarespace
- Statamic and Laravel, including custom backends and APIs
- Platform migrations with redirects and SEO handled
- DevOps, hosting and performance work
A common one: you've won a Shopify job and your team are WordPress people. Send it to me and nobody has to learn a new platform on your client's budget.
How it works
- White-label or visible. I work under your name or mine, whichever suits the job.
- Your client stays your client. I don't contact them unless you ask me to, and I never pitch to them.
- NDAs are fine. Send yours over and I'll sign anything reasonable.
- Your process, your tools. Your Git workflow, your ticketing, your Slack or Teams.
- Code you'd be happy to own. Readable, tested where it matters, and handed over properly.
Rates
£500 a day, or a fixed price per job, agreed in writing before I start. You'll know exactly what to put in your own quote, and it won't move unless the brief does. If it does, you get a written change request to pass straight on to your client before I do anything.
What agencies and partners say
Jonathon Macleod
Founder, NumaSuite
I’ve worked with Wayne for many years and he excels at turning soft requests into hard requirements. Very solid understanding of systems and user journeys, and great at foreseeing issues and benefits of different options. Would 100% trust him to lead any project with minimal oversight.
James Pickard
Founder, Cloudship
I've worked with Wayne for a couple of years. He built the Statamic sales site we use to generate leads for Omnitend, our POS for small hospitality businesses, and he's worked full-stack in Laravel and React on client builds where I've been the architect. He takes a brief and runs with it, asks the right questions, and I trust him with production.
Oliver Browne
Lead Developer, Freshleaf Digital
Wayne has been Freshleaf's go-to developer for overflow work. He turned a Figma design into a Statamic site, including a custom blog import tool with a walkthrough video so our team could run it ourselves. He also extended a Laravel Filament staff PIM and a client extranet for a global engineering client. His code is clean and easy to review, and he slots into our team with very little hand-holding.
Got a job that needs doing?
Send me the brief, even a rough one. I'll come back with availability and a price within one working day.
Send the Brief