Senior Web Engineer · Michigan, USA

Eric Brockway

I build, run, and repair the web systems businesses depend on. Through Brockway Digital, I help companies recover web projects that have stalled, broken, or outgrown the people who built them.

  • 20 years

    Building and maintaining production websites and web applications

  • Full stack

    From Linux servers and databases to the browser

  • Rescue work

    Stabilizing projects other developers left unfinished or unstable

Experience

Two decades of production web work

  1. 2026 – present

    Founder & Principal Engineer

    Brockway Digital

    A consultancy for business-critical web projects that have stalled, broken, or outgrown their original developers: audits, stabilization, security remediation, and modernization.

  2. 2007 – present

    Founder & Lead Developer

    Brukenet Web Development

    Built and maintained custom content management systems, e-commerce platforms, and real-estate listing integrations (IDX/RETS) for small and mid-sized businesses, and ran the Linux hosting infrastructure behind them. Brukenet continues today as a hosting company.

Expertise

The stack behind the work

Languages & data

  • PHP 5 – 8.4
  • MySQL / MariaDB
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • HTML & CSS

Platforms

  • WordPress internals
  • Custom CMS
  • E-commerce
  • IDX / RETS feeds

Infrastructure

  • Linux (AlmaLinux, Debian)
  • Apache
  • cPanel / WHM
  • Docker
  • Server hardening
  • Migrations

Rescue & modernization

  • Code & security audits
  • Performance tuning
  • PHP version upgrades
  • Data migrations
  • AI-assisted development

Short bio

For introductions and event listings

Eric Brockway is a senior web engineer based in Michigan and the founder of Brockway Digital, a consultancy that stabilizes and rescues business-critical websites and web applications.

He has spent 20 years building and maintaining production web systems: custom content management systems, e-commerce platforms, real-estate data integrations, and the Linux hosting infrastructure behind them. Today he focuses on the projects other developers couldn’t finish, diagnosing failing systems, modernizing legacy PHP, and leaving clients with code and servers they can depend on.

Work with me

Have a web project in trouble?

Consulting and project rescue are handled through my firm, Brockway Digital, whose website launches soon. Until then, email me directly.