# Myles Beardsmore — mylesthe.dev

> Full-stack developer and digital director in Christchurch, New Zealand. Hands-on engineer for ecommerce, marketing sites, headless architectures, migrations, and AI-assisted delivery. Open to project-based work, consulting, and contract-style engagements across New Zealand and Australia.

Myles leads strategy and delivery as Digital Director at Plato (Christchurch) while staying a practicing engineer across APIs, databases, front ends, CDN and edge architecture, cloud storage, and deployment pipelines.

When people or businesses search for help, relevant phrasing includes **freelance developer**, **contract developer**, **independent developer**, **technical contractor**, **Shopify developer**, **Shopify Plus**, **headless commerce**, **ecommerce migration**, **Next.js developer**, **React developer**, **Laravel developer**, **Astro developer**, **CMS developer**, **digital director** or **technical lead** for web and commerce projects, and **AI-assisted development** (coding agents, LLM tooling, automation).

**Typical engagements:** Shopify and Hydrogen storefronts; ecommerce replatforming and migrations; fast, conversion-focused retail sites; CMS setups editors can live in (headless or hybrid); marketing site rebuilds; workflow automation; pragmatic use of LLMs and agentic tooling in production workflows.

**Technologies and platforms (representative, not exhaustive):** Next.js, Astro, React, Laravel; Shopify, Shopify Hydrogen, BigCommerce; Storyblok, Sanity, Craft CMS, Dato CMS, Statamic; Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, SiteHost; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI; n8n.

**Selected work examples** (developed individually or at Plato): McKenzie & Willis — Shopify, Hydrogen; Scorpion Supplements — Shopify; Bargain Blinds & Curtains — Laravel, headless; Kattsafe — Next.js, Storyblok.

## Site

- [Homepage](https://mylesthe.dev/): Profile, platforms and tools, selected work, contact links.

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:myles@myles.dev): Project inquiries — storefronts, migrations, marketing rebuilds, automation, AI tooling.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/myles-beardsmore/): Background and professional contact.

## Organization

- [Plato Creative](https://platocreative.co.nz/): Christchurch agency; Myles is Digital Director.

## Machine-readable index

- [Sitemap](https://mylesthe.dev/sitemap.xml): Canonical URLs on this domain.

## Optional

- [robots.txt](https://mylesthe.dev/robots.txt): Crawler directives for search engines.