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Jason Stauffer

Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Reading, PA

Senior full-stack engineer with 20 years of professional experience building, rescuing, and scaling web platforms, from custom CMS builds to large-scale ERP SaaS. Deepest in Laravel, Craft CMS, and WordPress. I own systems end-to-end: infrastructure, backend services, frontend UX, integrations, and delivery. Comfortable deep in a legacy codebase or translating between engineering teams and stakeholders.

Professional experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

HomeSource Systems, Business Management Solutions for Independent Retailers · August 2025 to Present

Build features on a large-scale Laravel ERP SaaS for appliance and furniture retailers: vendor EDI integrations, financial systems (AP, AR, tax), delivery scheduling, and enterprise data pipelines. Daily work across Laravel internals: Eloquent modeling and query optimization, queued jobs and Redis-backed workers, middleware, service providers, events and broadcasting, and cache layers. Ship with PHPUnit coverage and contribute to the platform’s front-end migration to React / Next.js.

Laravel, Blade, PHP, MySQL, Redis, AWS

UX Engineer & Craft CMS Developer

Tempest Interactive, Destination Marketing Organization Agency · August 2023 to Present (Freelance)

Build Craft CMS Twig templates and front-end features across a portfolio of destination-marketing and tourism websites, extending existing TypeScript components and integrating mobile-first, WCAG-compliant design systems.

Craft CMS, Twig, TypeScript

Full-Stack Engineer & Infrastructure Lead

VFC, Inc, Branding & Marketing Agency · November 2017 to Present (Freelance)

Built 28 sites and applications for SMB clients on custom Laravel, WordPress, and PrestaShop frameworks, including eCommerce, field-reporting platforms, and client portals, across 47 client engagements. Manage servers for client projects where in scope.

Laravel, WordPress, PrestaShop, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, DNS, HTML / CSS

Operations Manager & Lead Developer

Digital Marketing Agency · April 2019 to May 2024

Handled agency operations, including team & client relations, billing, delivery, and capacity planning while developing websites, leading SEO strategy (keyword research, GTM/GA4, event tracking, technical audits, A/B testing) and managing infrastructure across HostDime, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare.

Craft CMS, WordPress, Vue, Tailwind, GCP, LAMP, DNS, SEO / SEM

IT Director & Principal Developer

PlannedGiving.com, Non-Profit Marketing Agency · May 2006 to December 2018

Built and maintained a custom SaaS CMS platform serving 900+ non-profit organizations; managed Rackspace infrastructure, Magento eCommerce customization, and end-to-end client site launches.

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, WordPress, Magento

Skills

Languages
PHP, JavaScript, SQL / MySQL, HTML, CSS
Front-end
Twig, Blade, Tailwind, jQuery / Bootstrap, Headless UI
Familiar
TypeScript, Vue, React / Next.js, Node / NPM tooling
Frameworks & CMS
Laravel, Craft CMS, WordPress, PrestaShop, Shopify
DevOps & Tooling
Git, Docker, Linux, Apache, AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, DNS, SSL
Payments & Integrations
Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Salesforce
Architecture & AI
C4 modeling, ETL pipelines, LLM API integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic)
Accessibility
WCAG / ADA, ARIA, screen-reader testing
SEO & Analytics
GA4 + Tag Manager, A/B testing, Lighthouse audits, keyword research