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STOFFEL.IO

00 / Position

One framework. One CMS. Twenty years of PHP.

I build Statamic websites and Laravel applications, and I have gone deep on exactly those two rather than wide. No lengthy onboarding, no learning curve, no estimate that doubles.

Check availability How I work

  • 20+

    Years in
    PHP

  • MSc

    Computer
    Science

  • 02

    Tools

  • 01

    Point of
    contact

Alexander Stoffel, smiling, seated at a table in front of a pale, weathered concrete wall.
Fig 01 / Alexander Stoffel

01 / Who I work with

Agencies bring me most of my work. The rest comes from companies who want their website in one steady pair of hands, usually after it has been in several. Same person either way, same estimate, same terms.

  • Agencies & studios

    Primary

    You have the client, the design and the deadline. What you do not have is a developer free this month who you would trust in front of that client.

    • White label: your client, your credit
    • Fixed price from a finished design
    • Briefed once, then out of your way

  • Companies & owners

    Also welcome

    Often the site already exists and whoever built it has moved on. It needs one developer who knows all of it and is still there next year. Design comes from you or your designer.

    • Takeover of an existing site, however it was left
    • One person for changes, fixes and hosting
    • You keep the code and the accounts

02 / Capability

  • C/01

    Statamic builds

    I build so the next thing is easy. New pages come out of components that already exist, rather than another template nobody else can touch.

  • C/02

    Laravel applications

    Portals, booking platforms, internal tools, SaaS. I use Livewire for the interactive parts, so there is no second codebase to keep in step.

  • C/03

    Integrations & add-ons

    CRM, ERP, payments, whatever the business already runs on. Connected in either direction, whatever shape the API arrives in.

  • C/04

    Rescue & takeover

    A build that stalled, or a codebase nobody wants to touch. I have turned both into sites that no longer come up in meetings.

  • C/05

    Care & hosting

    Monitored, patched, backed up. Come back in a year or two and I still know the codebase.

  • C/06

    Planning & direction

    Start from what the business is trying to do, then decide what to build. A solid plan prevents the expensive kind of rework.

03 / How I work

Single point of contact
You always get me. No project manager, no lengthy decision-making process, no junior quietly assigned to your project. You always know who is writing the code.
SEO and a11y included
Search engine optimization and accessibility should not be an afterthought anymore. Both are part of building the page, not an upsell at the end.
A site anyone can run
You do not want to call your developer every time something changes. That is why I build with flexible components, so your team can update content and build new pages from scratch.
Fast by default
Speed is a build decision, not a plugin you add at the end. Sites contain no framework you did not ask for, no tracking pile, and every image is generated at the size it is actually served.
Your tools, your name
I work in your task board and your repository, under an NDA if you want one. Agencies get a white-label agreement with a no-solicitation clause as standard, so your client stays your client.
Fixed price or by the hour
A finished design gets a fixed price and a delivery date. Everything else, from a few hours of help to months of extra capacity, is billed by the hour. You pick whichever suits the work.

04 / Work samples

Project Detail Stack
Agency development partner Eleven sites in nineteen months for one brand agency, every one under their name. They deliver the design, I build, launch and maintain, and their team runs the sites without a developer. Statamic
Magazine multisite with a paywall A publisher's German magazine and its English platform, rescued from an expensive headless build that did not work and rebuilt as one Statamic site with a server-side paywall. A third magazine has launched on it since. Statamic
Real estate CRM integrations The backend behind estate agency websites across Spain, built with the agency DigitalHappy: nightly imports from property CRMs and Salesforce in up to five languages, inquiries and feeds going back out, and the search pages built on them. Statamic, Laravel
Event management platform A year of phone calls, spreadsheets and Word documents replaced by one Laravel application. Exhibitors booked and ran their own stands, badges and catering for BMW's internal IT convention, three years running. Laravel

05 / References

“Alexander has helped us to develop add-ons that integrate with third-party APIs. His understanding of our project needs and the quality of the work delivered were excellent. He demonstrated clear expertise and knowledge of the Statamic and Laravel environment, and our collaboration has been extremely positive.”
Simon Kelly
Creative Director, DigitalHappy
“The convention tool developed by Alexander helped us automate and optimize our procedures. Exhibitors were able to manage bookings, furnishing, employee badges, catering, and a lot more independently. Capturing and automating all these aspects in a single tool seemed impossible at first, but Alexander delivered! This allowed our team to focus on other areas and led to a lot of happy customers.”
Johannes Niculescu
Project Lead, Agentur von Thülen
“Alexander was brought into a project that I had made a mess of and turned it around in no time. I had a lot of questions and had made more than a few mistakes, but he found answers and came up with solutions quickly. All of it with clear communication and deadlines met.”
Benji Bilheimer
Director of Technology, Travel Buddies GmbH
“We were very happy with the work provided. Alexander delivered working software without bugs and was helpful throughout, solving problems very quickly and suggesting solutions of his own.”
Stefanie Waschk
Managing Director, Fusion Campus UG

06 / Background

I used to hire people like me.

Web development was a deliberate choice, not a fallback: projects that ship in weeks, and problems that belong to real people. Chasing whatever framework is new this year has never interested me. Building something that still works in five years does.

Before going independent I ran a web development agency in Munich, and hired plenty of contractors myself. The ones worth keeping had solved similar problems before, kept everyone up to date on their progress, and delivered what they promised.

Twenty years in, I have watched enough projects go sideways to know which decisions cause it. Most of them are made before anyone writes a line of code. I see them coming now, so you do not have to.

Alexander Stoffel seated on a workbench in a bright studio with exposed brickwork and tall windows.

Fig 02 / Your new developer

07 / Next step

Book a call, or send me the problem and the deadline.

A call sorts out whether it is a fit and roughly when I am free. For a number, send the details in writing. An estimate made on the spot is worth less than one made properly.

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