Robin Metcalfe

I turn broken systems into working products that actually ship

15+ years. Edinburgh. Still shipping.

things i believe

  • • shipping beats polish
    • • working code in production teaches more than perfect plans
    • • users reveal requirements you never imagined
    • • pragmatic solutions outlive elegant theories
  • • clarity beats cleverness
    • • clients pay for outcomes they understand
    • • complex explanations hide incomplete thinking
    • • documentation should answer questions, not create them
  • • proven tools deliver results
    • • Laravel powers millions of profitable businesses
    • • mature frameworks have solved your edge cases already
    • • innovation belongs in business logic, not infrastructure

recent fixes

2024

Kurt Weill Foundation

Fixed a Salesforce integration that three agencies couldn't. Turns out reading the docs helps.

Salesforce Laravel PostgreSQL
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2023

Council Portal Rescue

Inherited a burning Laravel app two weeks before launch. Shipped on time. Still running.

Laravel Vue.js MySQL
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2023

Another World Adventures

Tour operator needed someone who could actually finish the booking system. I finished it.

WordPress WooCommerce Stripe
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previous work

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what clients say

let's fix your thing

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