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Full-stack development, done properly.

Nikolaj Dyring — freelance engineer for Laravel and Rails work that has to hold up: migrations, payments, queues, the unglamorous parts.

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LARAVEL 13 ◆ PHP 8.5 ◆ LIVEWIRE ◆ RAILS 8 ◆ MYSQL ◆ POSTGRESQL ◆ REDIS ◆ MONGODB ◆ DOCKER ◆ GITHUB ACTIONS ◆ STRIPE ◆ CODEX ◆ CLAUDE CODE ◆ LARAVEL 13 ◆ PHP 8.5 ◆ LIVEWIRE ◆ RAILS 8 ◆ MYSQL ◆ POSTGRESQL ◆ REDIS ◆ MONGODB ◆ DOCKER ◆ GITHUB ACTIONS ◆ STRIPE ◆ CODEX ◆ CLAUDE CODE ◆

Selected work

// placeholder cases — real ones under NDA until you ask

01 Project Alpha Booking platform for a clinic chain — replaced three tools and a shared inbox. 4-week build, weekly deploys from day one. laravel 13 livewire mysql horizon 2026 →

02 Project Beta E-commerce engine handling 40k orders a month. Inventory sync, Stripe billing, zero-downtime migrations. laravel 13 livewire mysql redis 2025 →

03 Project Gamma SaaS metrics dashboard — the one screen the founders check every morning. Sub-second queries over 200M rows. rails 8 turbo postgres redis 2024 →

How I ship

Trunk-based, test-first, deployed continuously. You see progress in production, not in slide decks. AI is part of the workflow — agentic engineering with Codex and Claude Code, every line still reviewed and tested.

BACKEND

Laravel · Rails
Horizon · Queues · APIs

FRONTEND

Hotwire · Stimulus · Livewire
Tailwind · React

DATA

PostgreSQL · MySQL
Redis · MongoDB

OPS

Docker · GitHub Actions
AWS · Hetzner

Activity

github — last 12 months

Experience

2026 — NOW

Software Developer — Perspektiva IT ApS

Solutions & AI engineering bridging infrastructure automation and hands-on AI enablement — I ship deployment tooling, run customer workshops, and build practical AI agent workflows.

2024 — 25

Software Developer — EG A/S

Developed Uno, a SaaS used by municipalities across Denmark — Rails, Vue.js, MongoDB. Reviewed and deployed code from a remote team, refactored legacy code, and shipped user-centered tools for guidance counsellors and school children.

2023 — 24

Ruby on Rails Developer — Inpay

Built and optimized agents processing millions of transactions a month, and maintained the Agent Control Center — the dashboard and ticket system keeping them healthy.

2021 — 23

Software Engineer — Group Logistic ApS

Integrated the Reepay payment gateway, built API endpoints for the data department, tested with RSpec, and set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions — Sidekiq, Capybara, Capistrano.

2020

Backend Developer — Step In Books

Structured and migrated data to a Firebase realtime database, integrated the Firebase SDK in the app, and built internal web apps for promo codes, titles, push notifications and user management.

Writing

Why I still reach for server-rendered HTML 2026-03

Laravel queues in production: field notes 2025-11

The boring stack pays my rent 2025-06

Zero-downtime migrations, step by step 2024-09

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