Hire a Senior Mobile + Full-Stack Developer: React, TypeScript & PHP Specialist Available for Contract Work

By Ian Mukanda — Senior Full-Stack Developer (5-8 Years Experience)

If you're searching for a senior full-stack developer for hire who can walk into a codebase, understand it fast, and ship production-ready features without hand-holding — you've found him. I'm Ian Mukanda, and I build fast, scalable, maintainable web applications end-to-end, from database schema to pixel-perfect UI.

I'm currently available for freelance and contract engagements, and this post is my pitch to you.

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Why Work With Me

Companies don't hire developers because they know a list of languages. They hire developers who solve problems and ship on time. Here's what that looks like in practice:

• Full ownership of features — I can take a product spec and deliver a working, tested feature without needing constant direction.
• Fast ramp-up on unfamiliar codebases — with 5-8 years across multiple stacks, I read code quickly and spot architectural issues early.
• Frontend-to-backend fluency — I'm not "a React developer who can also touch the backend." I design APIs, model databases, and build the UI that consumes them, so nothing gets lost in translation between layers.
• Freelance-ready — clear communication, async-friendly workflow, and experience working with distributed teams and clients across time zones.

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Core Skills & Tech Stack

Frontend

• React (hooks, state management, performance optimization)
• TypeScript & JavaScript (ES6+)
• Tailwind CSS for fast, consistent, responsive UI

Backend

• PHP (Laravel-style MVC patterns, REST APIs)
• Go, Ruby, Java, C#, C++, C — for backend services, tooling, and performance-sensitive work
• Python for scripting, automation, and data-adjacent tasks

Mobile

• Swift for native iOS work when a project needs it

What this breadth means for you: most freelance full-stack roles need React/TypeScript on the frontend and some backend language — PHP, Go, Ruby, whatever your existing stack runs on. Instead of hiring a frontend specialist and a separate backend contractor, you can hire one senior developer who covers both, and speaks the language your legacy systems were built in too.

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The Kind of Work I Take On

• Building new features on an existing React/TypeScript + PHP (or similar) product
• Full MVP builds for startups, from database design through deployed frontend
• API development and integration work
• Performance audits and refactors on codebases that have grown messy
• Short, well-scoped contract sprints as well as longer ongoing engagements

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Recent Work

1. I Built a full news website on blogger using my own made template from scratch:

2. Built an automated football news website that scrapes football data from several open source websites and enrich the articles automatically using 3 different integrated AI models before they are automatically published :
Hosted the backend on render, frontend on Vercel, and used Firebase Firestore for data storage:

3. Created an online moneymaking platform (EarnPro) with Auth, user task management system and admin management dashboard with supabase database,  frontend on Vercel. I Engineered it using Typescript, React and tailwind css for design etc.

Earnpro

4. I engineered a real-world handshake system that offers verified, ready-to-task handshake accounts in all third-world countries with a powerful Auth system using react, tailwind , python, and php for backend.
Handshake Data Annotation

5. Built a movie trailer website, pushed the codebase to github and deployed it on lovable due to high techstack integrated in lovale.dev.
All movie trailers are scrapped from different open-source movie sites inclusive of youtube for some trailers, OMDB etc.

MovieFlux

And many more websites to different clients...

Let's Work Together

I'm available now for freelance and contract projects. If you need a senior mobile app or full-stack developer who can move fast across React, TypeScript, PHP, and beyond, let's talk.

📧 Email: ianwafulamukanda@gmail.com
 💼 Portfolio: Ian Mukanda
🔗 GitHub: DreadDoctor-Org
🔗 LinkedIn: LinkedIn

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FAQ

What does Ian Mukanda specialize in? Full-stack web development, with particular strength in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and PHP, plus experience across Go, Ruby, Java, C#, C++, C, Python, and Swift.

Is Ian available for short-term contracts? Yes — both short, well-scoped sprints and longer ongoing engagements.

Does Ian work with distributed/remote teams? Yes, including across time zones, with an async-friendly communication style.

How can I get in touch? Reach out via email / LinkedIn link to discuss your project.