SE Labs
Rebuilt from scratch in 2024. Retained ever since.
The testing lab needed a rebuild. The demo won it.
SE Labs is the cyber security testing authority: the independent lab whose reports the security industry answers to. In 2024 they needed their site rebuilt properly, and a design agency I'd worked with put my name forward.
I sent a working demo site before the contract existed. The code quality closed the deal. Design by the agency, everything else mine.
What I can tell you, and what I won't.
A fully custom theme, hand-written, no page builder. Years of test reports and legacy posts migrated into a faceted reports library: filter by year, filter by technology, live counts, all custom-coded. That part is public. You can use it right now.
The hosting is ████████████. The resilience plan is ██████████████. The deployment process is ███████████. It's a security company. The interesting parts stay between me and them.
The retainer is the review.
Two and a half years on, I'm still their developer: thirteen consecutive months on retainer and counting, updates handled, changes shipped, questions answered.
A security company can hire anyone they want. They test like hackers for a living. They don't keep people around on sentiment. When a lab like that keeps the same developer for years, that is the reference.