I'm Jacques — a freelance Laravel specialist based in South Africa, building multi-tenant platforms, API backends, and admin portals for clients across South Africa, the UK, the UAE, and the EU.
Most projects don't fail on the happy path. They fail on the queue that dies silently at 3am, the tenant that sees another tenant's data, or the deploy that works locally and nowhere else. These are the problems I'm hired to solve.
Laravel API backends with proper tenant isolation, role-based access, and domain routing that actually holds up in production.
Inherited a Laravel app that's leaking queues, dropping jobs, or falling over on deploy? I find the root cause and ship the fix.
REST APIs and the Vue.js or Next.js portals that consume them — designed as a single system, not two projects glued together.
DigiFellow is the freelance practice of Jacques — a Laravel and Vue.js specialist based in South Africa, serving clients across four regions through DigiFellow PTY Ltd, a registered South African company.
My focus is on custom business systems: multi-tenant SaaS platforms, REST API backends, admin portals, and the integrations that tie them to the rest of a business. The kind of systems that handle real money, real users, and real operational complexity — not demos.
I work end-to-end: architecture, database design, the backend, the frontend, the queues, the deployment pipeline, and the monitoring. I'm comfortable owning the whole stack, or slotting into an existing team as the Laravel specialist who unblocks the hard backend problems.
The strong opinion I mentioned? Boring systems outlast clever ones. I reach for proven patterns, mature libraries, and straightforward architecture before I reach for anything novel. Clients don't hire me to play with frameworks — they hire me to ship something their business can rely on for the next five years.
Whether you're in South Africa, the UK, the UAE, or anywhere in between — send a message and I'll come back within one working day.