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Samuel B.

Laravel & WordPress PHP Developer | Custom Web Apps & REST APIs

Laravel & WordPress PHP developer who builds things that keep working after launch. Top Rated, 100% Job Success. If one of these sounds familiar, we should talk: → Your web app works in the demo but breaks with real users → Your WordPress site is slow, insecure, or breaks every time you change something → A previous developer left your project unfinished, undocumented, or both That's the work I enjoy: understanding the code that's already there, fixing the root cause instead of the symptoms, and shipping something your team can actually run. With Laravel, I build: → Custom web applications and admin dashboards with roles, permissions and notifications → REST APIs and third-party API integrations → Livewire interfaces, MySQL database design, Docker deployments on AWS With WordPress, I handle: → Custom themes, plugins and functionality → Performance optimization and security fixes → Clean-up of sites that have grown messy over the years Proof, not promises: → School Management System built with Laravel, Livewire and a REST API. Live demo available, just ask. → A multilingual community platform supporting 123+ languages, with custom admin panel, user roles, events and a notification engine. What working with me looks like: ✔ You always know where your project stands, without chasing me ✔ Problems flagged early, with options, not excuses ✔ Clean, documented code the next developer can pick up ✔ Tested before delivery (Playwright, CI/CD), built for production, not just for approval I work in English, French and Swahili, from East Africa (UTC+3), with good overlap with Europe and the Middle East. Send me your project, or the problem you're stuck on, and I'll reply with the questions that matter and a realistic plan.

🇨🇩Bukavu, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the$35/hr100% JSS5.00 (8)Since Aug 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.1k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#21,097 / 412k
🇨🇩Country#3 / 78
Revenue, last 30 days
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Read daily since Oct 23, under 30 days

Total earnings
$28k

Billed in all: $30k

World#116,746 / 412k
🇨🇩Country#11 / 78
Per project
$2.3k

$1.8k in the last 6 months

World#69,430 / 412k
🇨🇩Country#12 / 78
Projects, last 6 months
7

Across 8 contracts

25% fixed75% hourly
World#28,826 / 412k
🇨🇩Country#4 / 78
Projects in all
12

Across 16 contracts

25% fixed75% hourly
World#183,649 / 412k
🇨🇩Country#23 / 78

Earnings, last 30 days

$29.7k+$110 earned since Oct 23Billed in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$29.5k$29.6k$29.7k$29.8kOct 23Oct 31Nov 7

Tracked from Oct 23, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 5% in HTML5

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #8Admin Panel Setup86 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 9%
  2. #113Automated Testing1,000 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 11%
  3. #121WordPress Bug Fix2,262 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 5%
  4. #151Database Design2,161 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 7%
  5. #188WordPress Customization2,901 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 6%
  6. #188Web Application Development2,030 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 9%
  7. #270CI/CD3,691 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 7%
  8. #310WordPress Plugin5,436 freelancers · 🇨🇩 #1Top 6%