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Taking on consulting engagements · Q4 2026

Emma De Silva

Laravel & PHP Consultant · Creator of HydePHP

Senior Laravel expertise for applications that matter.

I help teams audit, secure, modernize and rescue production Laravel applications.

Portrait of Emma De Silva
250k+
HydePHP downloads
500k+
hydephp.com visitors
11+ yrs
Building for the web
7 yrs
Writing PHP

$ php artisan help

How I can help.

Laravel Technical Audit

from €2,500 / $2,900

A focused technical review of a production Laravel application: architecture, security, maintainability, dependencies, performance, deployment and upgrade risk.

You get a prioritized written report, concrete recommendations and a review call.

Typically 3–5 days

Modernization & Rescue Sprint

from €5,000 / $5,900

For upgrades, technical debt, unstable applications, difficult migrations, architecture problems, or work that has become too risky for ordinary feature development.

Scoped implementation work with a defined technical outcome.

Typically 1–3 weeks

Fractional Laravel Architect

from €3,500 / $4,100 per month

Senior technical support without adding another full-time hire: architecture decisions, code review, security, difficult debugging, mentoring and technical planning.

Ongoing · limited availability

Prices exclude VAT where applicable. Invoicing available in EUR or USD.

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The developer clients ask for by name.

Laravel specialist with eleven years building for the web. I created HydePHP, a Laravel-based static site generator with 250,000+ downloads, contribute to Laravel itself, teach secure development, and speak at Laravel conferences across Europe.

I work directly with engineering teams when they need experienced outside help on architecture, security, modernization or unusually difficult technical problems. I’m the engineer who whiteboards the architecture, explains it in the customer's language - and then ships it.

$ git log --reverse emma/career

Work, one commit at a time.

tag: origins · 2018 - 2020 · Sweden & Remote US

Earlier years · freelance, production & public projects

  • Freelance developer & designer for SMBs and local government - discovery, proposals, pricing, delivery.
  • Project lead for an EU Commission youth-engagement initiative, co-hosting a live-broadcast political panel seen by 2,000+ people.
  • Executive producer for a US web series. I learned to sell before I learned to scale.

tag: v1.startup · 2020 - 2022 · Roswell, NM (Remote)

HumLow · Co-founder & CEO

  • Technical co-founder of a US startup: shipped production Laravel applications across e-commerce, back-office, and SaaS.
  • Ran operations, strategy, and every customer conversation from first discovery call to close.
  • Built and operated the company's infrastructure - orchestrated cloud containers and on-prem bare metal, with corporate grade security baked in from day one.

stack: Laravel · PHP · MySQL · Cloudflare · Ubuntu

tag: v2.opensource · 2022 - Present · Malmö, Sweden

HydePHP · Creator & Maintainer

  • Created and solely maintain a Laravel-based static site generator: 250,000+ downloads, featured in Laravel News and the official Laravel blog.
  • Own the entire lifecycle - architecture, releases, documentation, support, community, marketing, and custom CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Currently building HydePHP Cloud, a multi-tenant SaaS CMS with live site previews, subdomain routing, a media pipeline, and a secured build & deployment pipeline.
  • Open-source contributions to the Laravel framework itself, including the well-received Number utility class.

stack: Laravel · Inertia · Vue · Tailwind · GitHub Actions · Pest

tag: v3.agency · Dec 2024 - Sep 2026 · Gothenburg (Remote)

Grebban · Backend Developer (Laravel)

  • Built integration infrastructure for a multi-company commerce group, keeping large product catalogues synchronized reliably across brands and markets.
  • Queue-driven backends on Laravel Horizon, where third-party data ingestion is business-critical and downtime isn't an option.
  • De-facto client-facing engineer: led technical discovery and translated business requirements into architecture and honest estimates.
  • Mentored across the team - the person other developers came to, from system internals to client meetings.

stack: Laravel · Horizon · MySQL · REST APIs

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From the stage & the keyboard.

Upcoming "How to HydePHP" - CreatorFree 10-episode video course on static sites with Laravel YouTube 📺
Aug 2026 Laravel Live Denmark - Speaker"Think Like an Adversary: OPSEC for Laravel Developers" Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Jun 2026 Laravel Live UK - Speaker"Think Like an Adversary: OPSEC for Laravel Developers" London 🇬🇧
2025 Laravel Meetup Stockholm - Keynote"HydePHP: Laravel-Powered Static Sites" Stockholm 🇸🇪
2025 Laravel News - Guest postWrote a guest article for the Laravel community's news site Web 🌍

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The toolkit.

Core

PHP & Laravel - Horizon, Livewire, Blade, Inertia. MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL. REST API design & third-party integrations at scale.

Frontend

Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Vue, Vite. Enough design sense to ship interfaces people actually enjoy using.

Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS & more), Ubuntu, Nginx, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions CI/CD - plus self-hosted bare metal.

Quality

Pest / PHPUnit, PHPStan, strict types, atomic Git commits. Highly tested, self-documenting code - secure by default.

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Have a Laravel problem?

Tell me what's happening, what you've already tried, and what outcome you need. I'll tell you whether I'm the right person to help.

Based in Europe and remote-native. I've spent my whole career working with European and US teams. Natively bilingual in English & Swedish, conversational in German.

You work with me directly. Engagements are contracted and invoiced through my Swedish Aktiebolag, registered for F-tax and EU VAT.