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Web & App Development
Custom websites and mobile apps tailored to your brand, audience, and goals—designed and built from the ground up with scalability and usability in mind. From idea to deployment, I help bring digital visions to life.
Helping brands, businesses, and creatives build meaningful experiences—from coffee to code, and everything in between.
Lafayette, Louisiana
Design & Development
Since 2006
Entrepreneur designer
Helping businesses turn ideas into things people can use.
Carlos Lerma
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Work that ships.
Websites, brands, and applications built for real businesses — most of them still running today.
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Design that does the job.
I’m Carlos—a designer-turned-developer, photographer, and business owner rooted in Lafayette, Louisiana. My journey started in church media over 20 years ago and has since grown into a multi-faceted career that spans web and app development, branding, photography, and hospitality. I currently serve as COO and full-stack developer at Accolades I.T., and own several ventures including Ohh Snap Booth, Java Square Café, and Carlos + Ashley Photography. I’m passionate about using design and technology to help others tell their story—and I love coffee enough to roast and serve it daily. Let’s build something that lasts.
Twenty years across church media, agency work, hospitality, and software — the through-line is building things people actually use.
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What I do.
Four disciplines that overlap more often than they don’t.
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Brand & Creative Consulting
Need clarity on your brand or help making things look and feel right? I offer creative direction, graphic design, and marketing insight to help businesses and individuals sharpen their visual identity and message.
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Photography & Visual Storytelling
Specializing in weddings, lifestyle, and branded content, I capture moments that matter. Whether it’s for your family, event, or brand, I’ll help tell your story through intentional, heartfelt imagery.
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Creative Consulting (Technical to Operational)
Need a second brain on your next big idea? I consult on everything from marketing strategy and team workflows to systems, tools, and automation. With experience across design, tech, and operations, I help streamline the creative process and unlock solutions that work.
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Notes from the work.
Occasional writing on design, code, coffee, and the businesses in between.
Computer optimization
Specs are not maintenance. Why a tricked-out Mac still bogs down over time, and the single tool I keep on every machine I work on to stop it happen...
The best photo locations in and around Lafayette
Seven places in Acadiana worth booking a session at, what the light does at each one, and the time of day that actually works. From a Lafayette pho...
3 reasons why cloud backup is important
Data loss happens at every scale, and in south Louisiana it usually arrives with the weather. Here are three reasons an off-site cloud backup earns...
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Helping brands, businesses, and creatives build meaningful experiences—from coffee to code, and everything in between.
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Completed Projects
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Years Experience
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Businesses Built
Our Savior's Church
Brown Counseling
Louisiana Tactical
Acadiana Tote Rentals
The Vendor Edit
Living Proof Coaching
Kendra McKinney Creative
Backdrop Rentals Co