Law-firm case management
Took a law firm off spreadsheets, with case-level access built around attorney-client privilege.
Hi, I’m Christopher and I’m a Software Engineer.
I design, build, and maintain web platforms from start to finish. Core stack: Laravel, Vue.js and Go on AWS.
Work
Four systems in production use, each with a full blog post.
Ask me if you want more detail on any of them.
Government personnel records
Replaced paper personnel files and Excel trackers, and cut reporting times by ~60%.
Offline AI transcriber
Confidential session recordings turned into text without the audio ever leaving the machine.
Multi-campus university file platform
One file and submissions platform shared across a university's campuses.
What I do
Four kinds of work, each backed by something you can read or use.
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01 · Engineering
Full-stack platforms
Laravel, Vue.js and Go, from database schema to AWS deployment: case management, records, file platforms, and on-device AI.
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02 · Design
Interface design
Access models built around attorney-client privilege, template authoring with visual placeholder chips, a mobile-first client portal, and a review tool built around a live waveform.
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03 · Blog
Blog and video
Long-form posts on what I built, what broke, and what I would change, plus a YouTube channel.
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04 · Business
Client engagements
Freelance builds since 2024 with ongoing maintenance, and a provincial IT team moved from FTP deploys to Git, code review and CI/CD, with 3 engineers mentored.
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Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
Case management platform · Law firm
- Solo, about 4 months. Up to 10 attorneys and staff use it daily with role-based access control, and the firm's spreadsheet workflow is retired.
- Built billing, document automation from versioned templates, and email notifications via AWS SES.
- Added a client portal with attorney messaging and an audit trail of every view, edit and download.
- Laravel
- Vue
- Inertia
- MySQL
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES)
Multi-campus data hub · State university
- Live on all 4 campuses. Google Drive-style file and submissions platform with ONLYOFFICE for in-browser document collaboration.
- Wrote Go sidecars for resumable tus uploads that survive exam-week traffic on flaky campus networks, ClamAV virus scanning with quarantine, and X.509 PDF signing.
- Laravel
- Go
- Vue
- MySQL
- S3
- ClamAV
- ONLYOFFICE
Software Engineer
- 500+ civil-servant records and a tourism analytics dashboard, replacing paper and Excel.
- ~60% faster reporting by fixing N+1 queries and adding indexes.
- Built an offline AI transcriber for the provincial board, so confidential audio never leaves the machine.
- Automated payroll deductions, tax reporting and SMS alerts, turning half-day tasks into one click.
- Built a Java Android app and an uptime monitor.
- Introduced Git, code review and CI/CD; mentored 3 engineers.
- Laravel
- Vue
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- Python
- Java (Android)
Intern Developer
- 3,000+ students. Faculty evaluation web app where students rate their instructors' teaching.
- Added Python sentiment analysis on written feedback, giving administrators data for strategic planning and decision-making.
Stack
- PHP
- Laravel
- Vue.js
- Go
- MySQL
- AWS
- Python
- Languages
- PHP
- Go
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
- Frameworks
- Laravel
- Vue.js
- Inertia.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js / Express
- REST APIs
- PHPUnit
- Pest
- Data
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- S3
- Queues
- Infra
- AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, SES)
- Docker
- Nginx
- Cloudflare
- ClamAV
- Linux
- CI/CD
- RBAC
- AI / ML
- Whisper
- CTranslate2
- On-device inference
- NLP
Contact
Open to full-time remote roles and contracts.
Tell me about the role or the project you have in mind.
Let’s talk.
vistalchris@gmail.com