About James — PHP Authority Hub

I'm James Henderson — a Texas-based Laravel, PHP, .NET & AI Developer, U.S. Army veteran, and computer scientist with 25+ years of experience building secure, scalable software systems. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston, and the degree still shapes how I work: systems thinking before frameworks, written specifications before code, and verification before delivery.

Before transitioning into software and AI development, I served in the U.S. Army from 1994–1997 as a 13B Field Artillery crew member, with assignments at Fort Sill, Fort Bliss, and Fort Carson. That experience shaped a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to engineering, problem solving, execution, and leadership.

This is the PHP Authority Hub — one of seven specialty hubs I maintain so buyers can find me in the vocabulary they actually search. The hub's discipline is senior php development, legacy modernization, and laravel 13 migrations. The full practice spans Laravel, PHP, .NET, AI, mobile, web, and systems work; see the master profile at jameshenderson.online for the broader engagement options.

Every engagement is single-principal. The engineer in the scoping call is the engineer writing the code. No agency overhead, no offshore handoff, no parallel-client multitasking. One discipline at a time, fully present.