What does a Laravel consultant do?
A Laravel consultant advises on and often builds the parts of a Laravel application that are hardest to change later: architecture, data model, tenancy, upgrades, APIs and performance. A good one reviews your existing code, writes down the decisions and their reasons, and leaves your team able to maintain the result without them.
How often do you need a Laravel upgrade?
Laravel gives each major release bug fixes for 18 months and security fixes for two years, so plan to move to each new major version within that window. Upgrading one version at a time, with tests and a rollback at every step, is far cheaper than jumping several versions after support has ended.
What does a CodeIgniter to Laravel migration involve?
Migrate in phases rather than rewriting in one go. Put tests around the behaviour that matters, build new parts in Laravel alongside the old application, and move data in phases with reconciliation reports and a rollback step. Keep legacy identifiers, so records, invoices or tickets created in the old system stay traceable.
How is multi-tenancy done in Laravel?
Most Laravel SaaS products use one database with a tenant identifier on every record, enforced by global scopes and middleware, and checked in queued jobs, caches and files too. Large or regulated tenants can get their own schema or database. The key is failing closed: a missing tenant scope should stop the request, not return data.
How much does a Laravel consultant cost?
Published rates range widely, from about $15 an hour offshore to $100-$200 an hour for US agencies, and vendors quote $25,000 to $80,000 for a small or medium CodeIgniter-to-Laravel migration. Fixed-scope reviews give you a priced plan before you commit to hourly work or a migration budget.
What Laravel platforms has Muzammil built?
As CTO: Omnitech CRM on Laravel 13 with Livewire and Filament, a multi-tenant CRM with fail-closed isolation; miBoletazo, a bilingual ticketing platform upgraded from Laravel 4 to Laravel 12 with web, mobile and scanning clients; DinDin and IMFlow360 on Laravel 11; and Pulse / MyOmniHub, a modular Laravel and Livewire platform with 61 modules.
Do you work with CodeIgniter and Yii as well as Laravel?
Yes. Laravel is Muzammil's main framework, and he has worked with Yii and CodeIgniter too, which is what a migration needs: understanding the old application well enough to move it safely. He has also replaced a legacy Perfex CRM installation with a Laravel platform, with reconciled data migration.
What does Muzammil charge as a Laravel consultant?
A 60-minute Decision Diagnostic is $300. The Platform & Integration Review of a live Laravel application costs from $5,900, or $8,900 with a detailed migration plan, over two to three weeks. A new product starts with the $3,900 Product Blueprint Sprint. Hands-on development runs on the CTO + build plan, $4,800 a month for 80 hours.
Will you write the code, or only advise?
Both are possible. Many teams build from the review and plan. Hands-on Laravel development by Muzammil runs on the CTO + build plan or the Full-time equivalent plan, 160 hours a month for $8,000. Code stays in your repositories, with every decision written down for your team.
Which tools and hosting do you use around Laravel?
Livewire, Filament and Sanctum on the backend; React, Vue, TypeScript and React Native or Flutter clients; MySQL or PostgreSQL with row-level security; Redis and queues; Stripe for payments; Docker, Nginx and Linux on AWS, Azure or GCP; and GitHub for repositories and CI/CD. The choice follows your product, not a fixed stack.
