Michael Boffey
Freelance Developer at Approved Digital
Wigan, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Boffey is a freelance developer based in Wigan with 12 years' hands-on experience building PHP-driven web applications and frontend experiences. He specialises in Laravel, WordPress theme and plugin development, bespoke CMS and API integrations, paired with front-end skills in Vue.js, JavaScript, Bootstrap and modern CSS tooling. Having led digital teams and held senior/backend roles, he combines agency-style client delivery with long-term freelance ownership under his Approved Digital trading name. Michael is comfortable across the full LAMP stack and Git workflows, often delivering e-commerce and third-party integrations that bridge backend reliability with polished UIs. An alumnus of the University of Central Lancashire, he brings practical engineering discipline and a track record of turning client requirements into maintainable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Software Engineering at University of Central LancashireHigher National Diploma, Software Development, Higher National Diploma, Software Development at Wigan and Leigh College
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Github Skills (16)
php8
laravel8
scrape6
instagram5
instagram-api5
payment-gateway4
tailwind4
scraper4
javascript3
sagepay3
wordpress1
http1
rest1
vue1
laravel-framework1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
approvedio/laravel-tailwind-config
May 2018 - Jun 2019
Get access to the tailwind config values in your Laravel Project
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 year
laraveltailwind
boffey/SagePay-Integration
Aug 2021 - Jun 2025
HTTP Messages for the Sage Pay REST (Pi) gateway.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
payhttp-messagessagegatewayrest
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