Full-stack freelance for clients who want it done right and done fast.
I’ve spent the last 20 years shipping backend systems and leading the teams that build them. Now I take agencies’ overflow work and treat it the way a senior engineer should: scoped tightly, architected carefully, delivered on time.
Built to drop into your team.
Engagements- 01
Overflow capacity for agencies
Slot me onto your team when a project is bigger than your bench. I take direction from your PM, work in your repo, match your conventions, and leave clean handoff notes when the engagement ends.
- 02
Backend architecture & complex integrations
API design, data modeling, third-party integrations, queueing, search. The kind of work that sinks a project when it goes wrong — and the kind I have shipped a hundred times.
- 03
Drupal & WordPress rescues and builds
Drupal 7→10 migrations, custom module work, multi-site Solr search, ACF-heavy WordPress builds. I led a team of ten doing exactly this for four years.
- 04
Full-stack product work
MVPs and feature builds across Next.js, Django, Laravel, and friends. I'll default to proven, stable tools — or reach for something newer when it earns its keep.
- 05
Technical due-diligence & code review
Inheriting a codebase? Considering an acquisition? Trying to figure out why velocity stalled? I'll read the code and tell you what I see, plainly.
- 06
DevOps that gets out of the way
CI/CD, container builds, deploy pipelines, infrastructure as code. Not so you can fire your DevOps person — so the engineers you have stop losing days to it.
The stack, all of it.
CapabilitiesCapabilities, not case studies. Most of my recent work sits behind NDAs — the stack itself is the answer to can he ship this?
- PHP
- Python
- Node.js / TypeScript
- Drupal 7–10
- WordPress
- Django
- Laravel
- FastAPI / Flask
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind / CSS arch.
- Vue
- PostgreSQL / MySQL
- Snowflake
- Apache Solr
- Redis
- Vector search (pgvector, Pinecone)
- RabbitMQ
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab)
- VMware vSphere API
- Git workflows
- Claude Code & Copilot workflows
- RAG architectures
- Agent orchestration
- LLM API integrations
- Embedding & semantic search
- REST & GraphQL APIs
- OAuth / SSO / SAML
- Payment processors (Stripe etc.)
- OpenAI API & embeddings
- Webhooks / event-driven
NOTEIf your project needs something not on this list, ask anyway. A senior engineer’s job is half adapting to the stack in front of them.
A short version.
About
I’m a senior software engineer with twenty-plus years of experience, working independently out of Lewes, Delaware.
Most of those years were spent on the backend — PHP, Python, the integrations that sit underneath the part the client actually sees. For four of them I was Backend Development Manager at Centretek, leading a team of ten developers across fifteen-plus Drupal and WordPress builds. Before that, lead engineer at Mindgrub building custom Drupal sites and automated VMware deployment through the vSphere API.
More recently at Infosec Learning, I led a small team building a hands-on security learning platform — Snowflake analytics through Django and RabbitMQ, and an 80% reduction in VM spin-up time using the VMware Python library and Azure Automation.
I am most useful to agencies that need a senior contractor they can drop into a project without onboarding overhead. I take direction well, write code other developers can read, and ship.
Architect first, code second
I write the data model and the boundaries before I write the routes. A morning of thinking saves a week of refactoring.
Match your conventions
If your repo uses Prettier with two-space indents, mine will too. If you commit in conventional-commits, so do I. Adapting is part of the job.
Proven tools, used well
I default to stable, well-understood tools. Postgres, Django, Next.js. Predictable choices ship faster and maintain better — and I save the novel ones for the parts that actually earn it.
Get in touch.
A short note is enough.
Rather skip the form? Email me at contact@dannybouman.com. Agency NDAs aren’t a problem — I’ll sign yours before our first call.