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My website, made with Laravel and Tailwind CSS
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Hey, I'm
Kayleigh Pilgrim
Full-Stack PHP & JS Web Developer
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Laravel Artisan ★ Linux Admin ★ SEO Expert
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Eternal Student ★ Coach
Helping your brand succeed since 2008.
This is my corner of the web to share my thoughts and experience.
Who am I?
I'm a Full-Stack Web Developer, mostly focussed on Laravel and Vue these days. I'm also an expert in Linux, DevOps and SEO.
I have 17 years of experience as a PHP developer and system administrator.
When I was 7, I had an old MS-DOS PC and learned how to write games in QBasic. I started writing PHP when I was 15.
In 2008, I started my first job as a web developer, and in 2017 I started freelancing.
When I'm not coding or tweaking servers; I read, study, watch some series, draw, work out, or spend some time hiking.
Welcome to my corner of the web, and thank you for visiting!
Kayleigh Pilgrim
How can I help you?
Development: websites, apps and shops
Code: PHP, Laravel, JS, Vue, React, Next.js, Livewire
Improvement: codebases, infrastructure, code problems, moving to Laravel, upgrades, ...
Custom themes/plugins: Wordpress, Drupal, Prestashop
Linux: Web-hosting, mail, VoIP, automation, monitoring, performance tuning, security, datacenter
Marketing: SEO, brand-building, social media
Remote freelance / consultancy.
On-site possible in Belgium.
Time zone: UTC+1 (Winter) / UTC+2 (Summer).
Fluent in English and Dutch.
Full CV available on request,
I like to keep my personal data private.
Portfolio
Check out some of my projects. Most projects have a link to their GitHub repository with my code.Please note that most projects I've worked as an employee, in teams, or under non-disclosure agreements aren't listed here. Here’s what I’ve been working on lately.
Blog
Here's what I've been writing lately.
My Skills
What I do best. These days I'm mostly focussed on Laravel and Vue. My main tools are PhpStorm, NeoVim, DBeaver, Postman and Git. Every skill listed below is something I've worked with in a professional setting.
Development
Backend: PHP, Laravel, Composer, Pest, PHPUnit, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Deno.js, Rest API, GraphQL
Frontend: Vue, React, Next.js, Livewire, Inertia, Blade, Tailwind CSS, Design, UI, UX
Database: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL, Database Design
Other: HTML5, CSS, Bash, PowerShell, C, C#, Python, Lua
Tools: Git, PhpStorm, VsCode, NeoVim, DBeaver, Postman, Git
CMS: Wordpress, Drupal, Prestashop, Magento, WooCommerce, Concrete5
Linux
Distro: Debian, RedHat, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo
Server: Nginx, Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, pm2, Asterisk, Exim, Postfix, Bind, PowerDNS, OpenSSH
DevOps: Puppet, Foreman, Jenkins, Ansible, Icinga2, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Graylog, LibreNMS, OpenNMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Automation, Monitoring
Panels: CPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, FreePBX, PfSense(BSD), Mailcow, NextCloud
Security: Suricata, Snort, Fail2Ban, Tripwire, ClamAV, IPtables, ModSecurity, Comodo WAF, Application Firewalls, Hardening, Custom Kernel, Intrusion Detection
Projects, Soft Skills, Seo, ...
Project Management, Scrum, Agile, DevOps
Diploma in Applied Psychology, Coaching, Studious, Creative, Solution-Oriented, Flexible, Responsible, Helpful, Empathic
Seo, Brand Building, Marketing, Social Media
Photo Editing, Video Editing
Security
Firewalls, Application Firewalls, Backup Solutions, Data Recovery, Antivirus, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Penetration Testing, Suricata, Snort, Owasp, Comodo WAF, ModSecurity, Hardening, Fail2Ban, Tripwire, IPtables
Network
TCP/IP, IPv6, HTTP3, Routing, Datacenters, BGP, WiFi, Bluetooth, Fiber, Ethernet, Hypervisors, VPN, High Availability, VoIP, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Huawei, Dell, NetGear, MikroTik, Ubiquity
Microsoft
Server, Client, Exchange, IIS, Active Directory, SQL Server, HyperV, Network Load Balancing, Remote Desktop Services, DNS, Sharepoint
Testimonials
I've had the pleasure to work with some amazing clients, teams, and companies. Here's what a few of them had to say about working with me.
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Kayleigh is the real deal. It’s rare to find someone who writes such clean code but also genuinely understands the infrastructure behind it. She took the initiative to clean up our improve and fine-tune our infrastructure and tighten security. She’s one of the few people I trust completely with both the code and the server it runs on.
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Before Kayleigh, our infrastructure was a constant headache. She automated our whole server setup with Puppet and Icinga2. We finally have real monitoring into what's happening and manage our servers from one single place now. She also upgraded our security with intrusion detection software and web application firewalls. I don't know how we managed before her. We're a small company and she took on the work of an entire team in just a few months.
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Kayleigh is a total unicorn. She built us a beautifully designed, fast and SEO-optimized blog. Both the software and the design are amazing. She added a login page for managing my blog and social media where I can see all interactions in beautiful graphs. She even helped us figure out our social media strategy.
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