My experience with Craft CMS started in its earliest days when it was first introduced as Blocks CMS to a small group of attendees in a conference room at EECI 2012 in Horseshoe Bay, TX. I recognized its potential right away as it appeared to improve upon the concepts I knew from ExpressionEngine (EE) and Pixel & Tonic's popular Matrix and Assets EE add-ons. Pixel & Tonic eventually renamed the CMS and released it as Craft CMS v2 and I've been working with it ever since.
Now Craft CMS v6 is right around the corner and it is being re-platformed from Yii to Laravel and I couldn't be more excited about two of my favorite web development tools coming together.
Is your development team ready for Craft 6? If not, I am actively seeking a full-time development position. Check out some of my work history below.
Featured Craft CMS Work
Image Comics
One of my favorite projects from my time at Masuga Design was the Image Comics website. I had been a fan of Image Comics since I was a kid so it was always a lot of fun to work on this website. Some of my contributions include:
- Airtable API integration that would periodically import key content into Craft CMS.
- Designed the content schema that maintains the relationships between releases and their respective series, creators, variant covers, etc.
- Contributed to front-end features such as the free comic reader, solicitations detial pages, the new releases page and all the various release archive pages.
AdaCore
Masuga Design launched the new AdaCore website in 2025. It was a very large project and we were committed to designing a content schema that made it easy for the content administrators to construct beautiful marketing pages with all kinds of different page components. Some of my contributions include:
- Entry type schema design with consideration for similar components that were developed as a single component type with different presentation options.
- Interactive front-end Alpine.js components and their respective back-end APIs (see the careers browser).
- Converted static front-end templates into dynamic Craft CMS Twig templates.
- Developed APIs that enabled us to migrate critical content from their previous website to the new website.
- Salesforce Web-to-Lead integration.
- HubSpot forms integration.
Network Affiliate Sites
At Masuga Design, we were often called upon to build various network affiliate sites. We built and supported sites for FOX, A&E, Warner Bros. Discovery, Univision, NFL Network, MLB Network, NBCUniversal and more. Some of my contributions include:
- Craft CMS Twig templating.
- APIs to fetch/report affiliate user content from/to a centralized marketing platform.
- Cloudinary API integration so distributors could create custom promotional materials using approved source materials.
- Alert systems to notify affiliates when marketing creative they had downloaded expired.
Commercial Plugins
At Masuga Design, I was responsible for developing, documenting and supporting three Craft CMS commercial plugins (PHP/Yii). Link Vault and Lab Reports are still available while CP Filters was discontinued when Craft added better element filtering to the control panel.
Do you have Craft CMS projects that could use my help?
Whether it is Twig templating, JavaScript-rich front-end components, or custom plugins/modules–I can do it all with Craft CMS.
Featured Laravel Work
TextSpot.io
I was a co-founder and Laravel/Vue developer for the TextSpot SMS/MMS marketing app serving 1,000+ business customers, leading full-stack Laravel/Inertia/Vue development and database schema design from concept through production launch.
- Designed aspects of the database schema pertaining to message templates, queued messages and sent messages.
- Developed services to queue SMS messages via the Twilio API and webhooks to listen for status updates.
- Built automated compliance systems including spam/illegal content screening and recipient opt-out management to ensure regulatory compliance
- Developed components that enabled customers to import their contacts and organize them into marketing lists.
Carmony
I was a co-founder and PHP/Laravel developer for Carmony, a car dealership lead generation service that matched car buyers with vehicles that fit their lifestyles.
- Designed the database schema of the Laravel application.
- Developed services that periodically imported vehicle inventory from numerous aggregators such as Dealer Specialties, Dealer eOps and Dealer Socket.
- Developed services that fetched make/model info and car history from APIS provided by Edmunds API, NHTSA and VIN Audit.
- Developed an early version of the "Carmonizer" responsible for rating vehicles on various car model data obtained via the third-party APIs.
Lamplighter
ExpressionEngine and Craft CMS developers may recall the Lamplighter app that was the spiritual successor of the devot:ee monitor add-on for ExpressionEngine. At Masuga Design, I was the lead developer for the web app and its various CMS add-ons/plugins that helped populate the application with site data. Some of my key contributions include:
- Developed and documented full REST API for customers to fetch and manipulate their data.
- Uptime Monitor API integration so we could detect downtime and alert customers to their sites being down.
- Google's Pagespeed Insights API integration to present page speed metrics for every site right in the web app.
Are you ready to hire your next developer?
I have a proven track record with both Craft CMS and Laravel and I am ready to put my skills to work in the Craft v6 era.