Hari KT
Freelancer from Kerala, India — full stack developer and maintainer of Aura for PHP
👋 I am Hari KT, a freelancer and full stack web developer based in God’s own country—Kerala, India. I have been freelancing since 2013 and writing PHP since 2006, working with clients around the world, from solo founders to established product teams.
I am a passionate advocate for open-source software and regularly contribute back to the community through code, documentation, and financial support.
🧩 Maintainer of Aura for PHP #
I am one of the maintainers of Aura, the PHP framework and library collection created by Paul M Jones—a prominent figure in the PHP community, author of Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP, and well known for his work on PHP framework benchmarking and performance.
Aura’s packages are fully decoupled and dependency-free, so each one can be used standalone or composed into a full framework. I have contributed code, documentation and releases across the project for over a decade, and much of the writing on this blog comes out of that work.
💻 My Expertise #
While my core expertise lies in PHP, I am driven by a continuous desire to learn and adapt to new technologies. Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to build diverse projects using modern tools and languages like Golang, NodeJS, ReactJS, and Python—including FastAPI for building APIs and Scrapy for web scraping and data extraction.
As a full stack developer I cover the whole path—database design, backend APIs, frontend interfaces, and deployment—so clients can hand over a problem rather than a task list.
🚀 What I Build #
- Cross-platform desktop applications with Tauri—native-feeling apps for Windows, macOS and Linux from a single ReactJS codebase.
- Mobile applications for Android and iOS using React Native—such as the Tripti restaurant app, available on the Google Play Store.
- Web applications and APIs in PHP, Golang and NodeJS, from database schema through to deployment.
- Working with AI for vibe coding to rapidly prototype and build innovative software solutions.
Because desktop, mobile and web all share the same React skills in my toolkit, I can take a product across every platform without handing it to a different team for each one.
I love tackling complex problems and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions for my clients. I also share my knowledge and coding journey on my YouTube Channel.
🤝 Hire a freelancer #
Looking for a freelancer from Kerala, India to build or rescue a product? I am available for freelance and contract work—get in touch or email me@harikt.com.