I build full-stack web applications: React and TypeScript on the front, PHP, Laravel and Node behind them. Currently at Devotel, building React interfaces and custom WordPress platforms and wiring both up to REST APIs, and also stand alone projects with React, Laravel and Node.js.

I like building things, breaking them, fixing them, and occasionally wondering why I wrote the code that way in the first place.

Accounts, transactions, budgets, savings goals and spending analytics. You enter the records; it never connects to a bank or moves money. React and TypeScript on the front, Laravel and Sanctum behind it.

Two decisions I'd defend in a review. Every owned record goes through a query scope that fails closed, so console code has to opt out of the filter deliberately rather than leak by accident. And a stored balance is never trusted on its own — ledger:reconcile recomputes each one from the transactions behind it, so drift surfaces as a failing command instead of a quietly wrong number.

flowchart LR
  A["React · TypeScript<br/>Vite"] -->|"Sanctum token"| B["Laravel<br/>REST API"]
  B --> C["owned() scope<br/>fails closed"]
  C --> D[("MySQL")]
  E["ledger:reconcile"] -.->|"recomputes every balance"| D

React · TypeScript · Laravel · Sanctum · MySQL · PHPUnit · Vitest

Track what you've watched, what you're part-way through and what's next, over TMDb's catalogue. React 19 on the front, Express, Prisma and PostgreSQL behind it.

A title sits in exactly one of three states, and holding that invariant against concurrent tabs is the part I'd defend in a review. Every transition runs inside one transaction that first takes pg_advisory_xact_lock keyed on (user, title), so a second tab acting on the same title waits and then re-reads committed state, while two different users never contend with each other at all.

stateDiagram-v2
  direction LR
  [*] --> Watchlist: add
  Watchlist --> Watching: start · records progress
  Watchlist --> Watched: stamp
  Watching --> Watched: stamp · score, note, date
  Watched --> Watchlist: remove stamp
  Watched --> Watched: revise stamp

Stamping a title clears its progress pointer in the same transaction, and stamping again revises the one entry rather than appending a second. TMDb responses are cached, and an expired row still serves if TMDb refuses — a stale poster beats a blank one.

React 19 · Express 5 · Prisma · PostgreSQL · JWT · Vitest

wp-themes — five client WordPress themes. Snap, Lucibook and Devotel are standalone ACF landing themes built from Figma. Superb Painting and Premier Edge Painting are Kadence children for Melbourne painters — suburb and service CPTs, quote forms, and the front-end markup in the child rather than in the parent.

portfolio-site — my own site, React and Vite, built and deployed to Pages by Actions on every push to main. Live at alexidrs79.github.io/portfolio-site.

Every repository runs its own checks on push:

Portfolio · LinkedIn · alexi.drs79@gmail.com