There are times when you want to avoid a framewok or a CMS completly and get back to raw PHP. This is usually for small scripts, bots, bespoke standalone tasks or times where performance / speed is critical to your application (trading bots for instance) where every milisecond mages a huge difference.
I have over 2 decades of Custome PHP development covering everything from small scripts to full sites. am happy to help with small issues right the way up to bespoke applications. I specalise in the following skills but have experience with a range of other software.
Script Development
Bespoke Builds
PHP upgrades
Code Reviews
Migrations