Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, I’ve been working on a large-scale modernisation of legacy web infrastructure, helping transition older WordPress-based systems into a more maintainable, API-driven containerised architecture.
A key part of this work has involved building and maintaining Laravel-based backend services that act as a bridge between systems, exposing structured data for a greenfield Statamic-based replacement site for the current WordPress based chss.org.uk. This has included designing APIs for content delivery, defining data contracts between services, and ensuring consistency across a mixed ecosystem of legacy and modern components.
The role has also required a significant amount of independent planning and system design. I’ve effectively acted as a technical architect for parts of the migration, making decisions around structure, data flow, and how different services should interact before implementation began. This included untangling tightly coupled WordPress dependencies and replacing them with clearer, more modular backend services.
Alongside the migration work, I’ve focused on improving stability and maintainability across the platform, introducing more predictable patterns for data handling and helping reduce fragility in areas that were previously tightly bound to legacy systems.
It has been a mix of backend engineering, system design, and practical architecture under real-world constraints, with a strong emphasis on keeping production systems stable while gradually evolving them into a cleaner and more scalable structure.