Hire a senior Laravel plus MySQL engineer
Schema design, query tuning, replication, backups. The whole LAMP++ stack by one senior. Fixed monthly subscription.
Who this is for
Founder whose stack is LAMP-flavored (Laravel plus MySQL) and wants a senior owner.
The pain today
- Team can write queries but cannot tune them.
- No one owns the schema — it grew by migration sediment.
- Replication was configured once and never verified.
- Backups are a cron job nobody has tested restoring from.
The outcome you get
- A senior Laravel plus MySQL engineer who owns schema plus queries plus deploy.
- A tested backup and restore runbook.
- Replication verified with lag monitoring.
- Schema migrations that CI blocks if they would lock production.
Laravel plus MySQL as one engineering surface
Hiring for Laravel plus MySQL separately rarely works well — the two depend on each other. An engineer who writes Eloquent without reading EXPLAIN will ship N+1 queries. A DBA who tunes queries without understanding Eloquent will optimize the wrong ones. The senior who owns both writes migrations that EXPLAIN cleanly, chooses between DB::table and Eloquent by load, and makes sure the ORM's query plan survives production traffic. That is what 'senior Laravel plus MySQL' means — not two job descriptions stacked.
Imohub as the LAMP lineage reference
Imohub started in the LAMP tradition (Laravel plus MySQL) before evolving into Next.js plus Laravel plus MongoDB plus Meilisearch plus AWS. The MySQL discipline that carried through the evolution — normalized core, composite indexes matched to real queries, replica-aware reads, migration rollback plans — is the same discipline I bring to Laravel plus MySQL audits and hires today. A mid-size real estate portal on Laravel plus MySQL is a well-trodden path.
What I actually own during the engagement
Under the monthly Applications subscription, MySQL ownership means: all new migrations reviewed before merge (schema, index, constraint), the top 20 queries reviewed monthly for plan regression, the slow-query log piped to Sentry with thresholds, the backup-restore runbook rehearsed quarterly, replication lag monitored with alerts, and the production credentials stored in a secret manager with rotation. That is the bar. If your current Laravel plus MySQL setup meets it, you do not need me. If it does not, you do.
Pricing and guarantees
$3,499 per month flat. 2 to 4 day delivery cycles. Daily async updates. Weekly 30-minute call. 14-day money-back inside the first two weeks. Cancel anytime. Work Made for Hire — every commit is yours from day one.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
Rebuilt a real estate portal at a fraction of the cost
Rebuilt Imóveis SC's real estate portal as ImoHub — a faster, more scalable successor — handling 120k+ properties with sub-second search and drastically reduced AWS costs.
Frequently asked questions
The questions prospects ask before they book.
- Can you migrate MySQL to Postgres?
- Yes. pgloader for data, schema review, Eloquent query audit for dialect changes. Typical mid-size migration is 3 to 6 weeks.
- PlanetScale or Aurora?
- PlanetScale when branching and online schema changes matter (development velocity). Aurora MySQL when the rest of the stack is on AWS and tight Aurora integrations matter (global replication, serverless).
- What about MariaDB?
- Same engagement. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement in almost every practical case. Divergences (JSON handling, sequences) are noted in the audit.
- Can you rescue a broken replication?
- Yes. Common causes: unlogged DDL on replica, diverged binlog position, replication filters misconfigured. The fix path depends on the cause; the audit reports the cause first.
- Backup verification?
- Yes. Every backup strategy includes a restore drill — actually restoring to a staging instance and verifying the data matches. Un-verified backups are not backups.
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