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Laravel sites & CMS
Showcases and back offices for trades and brands. Editable content, local SEO, measured motion — not a disposable demo.
Context
Developer in Montpellier — security, cryptography & tooled AI
Web & mobile developer in Montpellier — Laravel sites, Flutter apps, Sylius shops.
Context
The context
I'm Albert Nicolas. I design and ship digital products where security isn't a flag flipped at the end but a property of the system: end-to-end encryption, secret management, integrity proofs, and controlled API perimeters. On the AI side, I don't just call a LLM: I build the tooling that makes AI reusable and safe — MCP servers, versioned skills with guardrails (category refusal, PII redaction), and snapshot-tested RAG retrievers. The goal: agents that act within a defined perimeter, not Pandora's box. Preferred stack: Laravel / PHP, Rust for hashing and crypto services, Vue / Flutter for the interface, Postgres + pgvector for RAG. IONOS deploys (preview then DNS), editable admin, and follow-up after delivery.
What that looks like in practice
A site the tradesperson can update without calling me for every photo. An app that works offline. A shop with real stock and payments. A documented deploy. I leave a clear admin, tidy env vars, and delivery notes — so the project outlives the first sprint.
Territories
Three axes I push hard
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Flutter apps
Business iOS/Android apps: offline, Firebase sync, PDF, auth. Carnet de Bord level, wired to a solid backend.
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E-commerce & go-live
Sylius shops (catalog, Stripe, stock) and IONOS deploys: preview, SSL, then DNS cutover.
Fit
Who I work best with
Tradespeople, producers, freelancers and small teams who want a clear tool — not a multi-tenant factory. Fuzzy briefs without constraints become workshops. Briefs with a deadline, users, and one clear technical constraint become deliveries.
- Showcase site + admin for a trade or SME
- Flutter mobile app on an API / Firebase
- Sylius shop (catalog, stock, payments)
- IONOS go-live with preview before DNS
Method
How I work
Little ceremony, lots of useful surface area: priorities, preview, and written “done” criteria.
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Clear brief, trade priorities, iterative delivery — every step leaves something demonstrable.
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Admin usable by someone who is not a developer.
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Mobile and web tested on a real phone before calling it done.
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Online preview before touching the client’s DNS.
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Secrets out of git, anti-spam forms, HTTPS — the basics without theatre.
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Clean handoff: admin access, checklist, and what you need to continue without me.
Experience
Freelance and projects — from client craft to go-live.
Jan 2022 - Present
Security & AI developer
Freelance — Albert Nicolas · Montpellier / remote
End-to-end secure products: encrypted vaults, PGP/S-MIME mail gateways, secret management, zero-trust APIs, integrity ledgers. On AI: MCP servers, guardrailed skill libraries and RAG. From brief to IONOS deploy.
Jun 2018 - Dec 2021
PHP / Symfony developer
Contracts & personal projects · France
Symfony / e-commerce foundations, Laravel sites and starters, first Rust crypto services. Product and security skill-building before client freelance.
What they say
Notes from people I have shipped with.
“The encrypted vault and PGP gateway let us meet a client requirement without burdening the teams. Albert explains the crypto instead of hiding it.”
“Versioned AI skills and the MCP server turned our LLM into a reusable tool. The PII guardrails saved us from a PR disaster.”
Contact
Let's talk about your next project
A brief, an idea, an app to launch. Write to me, I reply quickly.