# Braunson Yager

> Full stack developer and consultant in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 20+ years of PHP and Laravel experience. Available for remote full-time roles, contract work, and monthly retainers. Operates Geekybeaver Software Development & Consulting.

## Key facts

- Name: Braunson Yager
- Role: Full Stack Developer & Consultant
- Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (Eastern Time, remote-friendly)
- Core stack: PHP, Laravel, Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, WordPress
- Experience: 20+ years; self-employed via Geekybeaver Software Development & Consulting
- Specialties: web application development, WCAG 2.1 AA / AODA accessibility, malware cleanup and security hardening (WordPress and PHP), performance optimization, technical SEO, business automation
- Collaboration: has worked directly with customers, leadership, and cross-functional teams (development, marketing, DevOps, sales, customer service)
- Adaptability: "give me any challenge and I'll find a solution" — can be dropped into any language or framework and figure it out; constantly learning
- Availability: remote full-time roles, contracts, retainers
- Contact: via the form at https://braunson.ca/#contact
- GitHub: https://github.com/braunson

## Selected work

- Premium domain marketplace (contract, name on request): ongoing development on a 250,000+ domain portfolio — performance (mobile PageSpeed 70 to near-perfect), SEO architecture, a major Laravel version upgrade, migration of an Elixir app to Laravel, analytics, and internal tooling
- StopC22.ca / TellMyMP (https://stopc22.ca): civic advocacy platform helping Canadians contact their MPs; built and launched solo with Laravel/Livewire
- OttawaSpends.ca (https://ottawaspends.ca): bilingual transparency tool surfacing Canadian government spending, grant by grant; Laravel/Livewire/PostgreSQL
- Regional tourism website: WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility remediation with client report and CLI audit toolkit
- Ripped Recipes (https://rippedrecipes.com): macro-searchable community recipe site, being rebuilt
- Ripped Restaurants (https://rippedrestaurants.com): fast-food nutrition tracker for North American chains (in development)
- PassYourProducer: Florida 2-15 insurance exam prep SaaS (in development)
- FlyerHawk (https://flyerhawk.com): Canadian grocery price tracking with deal-quality scoring (in development)
- Experiments: Navigable (WCAG/AODA accessibility scanning and reporting platform, in development), SeasonPulse (market intelligence and pricing signals for Niagara tourism operators, concept), Forkful (self-hosted kitchen recipe manager), Sluice (marketplace deal monitoring), StockHawk (market signal tracker with paper trading)

## Past roles

- ArborXR: full stack engineering on an MDM platform for managing AR/VR headset fleets
- PrepAgent: real estate exam prep platform; engineering through its acquisition by Aceable, including a 35% platform performance improvement with reduced infrastructure costs
- Houseable (The Zahnd Team): custom real estate software and workflows, since retired

## Open source & tools

- ParseLog (https://parselog.com): free online log parser for Laravel and WordPress
- Ontario Election Quiz 2025 (https://braunson.ca/ontario-election-quiz-2025/): client-side JS quiz matching voters to parties
- spotify-slack-sync (Docker tool)
- Laravel framework contributions
- Canada Post Barcode Chrome extension
- Custom WordPress plugins
- 25 public gists (https://gist.github.com/Braunson): security scanners (IOC/web-shell detection, WP core integrity), Laravel utilities (failed-job retry, chunked migrations, query optimization write-ups), WordPress tooling (multisite migration, theme settings, DB notifications), and small Alpine.js/Tailwind apps (API tester, JSON Path Explorer, pizza dough calculator)