Senior full-stack developer for agencies and product teams — Laravel business systems and headless Drupal + Next.js platforms.
Five platforms — one built solo, four with the Rush Hour Digital team.
01 / 05Laravel + Inertia React business application
An internal accounting and operations platform for Eleve Architects — client profiles, projects, billing, expenses and role-based access in one Laravel application.
02 / 05Drupal + Next.js commerce platform
A multilingual commerce storefront delivered by Rush Hour Digital on headless Drupal and Next.js.
03 / 05Drupal + Next.js legal publishing platform
A subscription legal publishing platform for the Council of Law Reporting for NSW, delivered by Rush Hour Digital.
04 / 05Drupal + Next.js community platform
An autism-support community platform — editorial, expert resources and marketplace — delivered by Rush Hour Digital on headless Drupal and Next.js.
05 / 05Drupal + Next.js chambers website
A website for a Sydney barristers' chambers — profiles, practice areas and resources — delivered by Rush Hour Digital.
Everything else, from Joomla components to Laravel APIs.
Grouped by who the work was for. Hover a row to preview the screenshot; agency work is credited to the agency.
| No. | Project | Screenshot | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
01 / 086 projects Rush Hour Digital — Agency team work | ||||
| 01 | LexibookCase study · Drupal · Next.js | |||
| 02 | NSW Law ReportsCase study · Drupal · Next.js | |||
| 03 | OptismCase study · Drupal · Next.js · TypeScript | |||
| 04 | Level 22 ChambersCase study · Drupal · Next.js | |||
| 05 | TV5MONDE Asie-PacifiqueHeadless CMS | |||
| 06 | Rush Hour DigitalHeadless CMS | |||
02 / 082 projects Independent | ||||
| 07 | Eleve Architects AccountingCase study · Laravel · Inertia · React | |||
| 08 | normanpono.dev (previous)React | |||
Not one framework — the whole path from interface to server.
Main tools first, supporting ones below. A number is how many archive projects used it — select one to filter the archive.
L1Frontend
Next.js04, 4 projects in the archiveReact02, 2 projects in the archive
VueAngularJSTailwind CSSAlpine.jsLivewireBootstrap
Next.js frontends for Lexibook, NSW Law Reports, Optism and Level 22 Chambers with Rush Hour Digital; Inertia + React for Eleve Architects Accounting.
L2Backend
Laravel07, 7 projects in the archivePHP15, 15 projects in the archiveASP.NET04, 4 projects in the archive
C#04, 4 projects in the archiveREST APIs
Laravel behind Eleve's billing and expense workflows and Stikadoo's billing and inventory APIs; ASP.NET + C# for a Malibu client's accounting and POS systems.
L3CMS & commerce
Drupal04, 4 projects in the archiveJoomla10, 10 projects in the archiveWordPress05, 5 projects in the archive
Magento 203, 3 projects in the archivePayload CMS
Drupal content backends for Rush Hour Digital clients, ten Joomla membership and campaign sites, and Magento stores for Stikadoo and Native Commerce.
L4Data & infrastructure
MySQLDockerLinux
SQL ServerLandoWardenVagrantCloudflare R2
Lando for the Rush Hour Digital Drupal builds, Warden for Stikadoo's Magento store, SQL Server under the Malibu accounting system, R2-ready file storage for Eleve.
L5Mobile & workflow
Ionic01, 1 project in the archive
iOSAndroidGitHubBitbucketSCRUM
Ionic apps for iOS and Android at Native Commerce, shipped in a SCRUM team on Bitbucket.
L6AI & agentic tools
ClaudeCodexGitHub Copilot
ChatGPTGemini
Speeds up research, implementation and debugging — architecture and final decisions stay with me.
Fifteen years, one direction: from custom Joomla components to headless platforms — and the maintenance after launch.
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Earlier1st Place, Visual Basic Programming — IT Days Celebration 2009
Open to new tools, optimistic about new problems — and still learning after fifteen years.
My first team was a small shop in Surigao City, writing Joomla components and Magento extensions. I still work from Surigao — now remotely, on headless Drupal and Next.js platforms with the Rush Hour Digital team. Every stack along the way made me better at the next one.
Most of my fifteen years has gone into systems that were already live: upgrading them, fixing them under real traffic and adding features without breaking what clients rely on. That shaped how I work more than any one stack did.
I've spent most of my career working remotely for US clients and agency teams, so I default to clear written updates and keep my working hours where they overlap with the team's.
01Read before rewriting
On a live Joomla, Magento, WordPress or .NET system I learn how it actually behaves before I propose changing it.
Six roles of live systems →02One source of truth
Access rules, navigation and content structure live in one place, so changing the system doesn't mean hunting through it.
Eleve — navigation registry →03Environments that match production
Lando, Warden and Docker setups that every developer shares, so problems show up locally, not after deploy.
Lexibook — shared Lando tooling →04AI drafts, I decide
Claude, Codex and Copilot speed up research, prototyping and debugging. Architecture, review and the final call stay with me.
AI & agentic tools →Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Surigao State College of Technology · 2020
Let’s build something.
Full-stack product work, Laravel and PHP systems, CMS modernisation, React interfaces, API-backed applications and pragmatic production support.
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