As a new freelancer and experience codeigniter developer, I have done these type of URL changes in many projects and its easy to achieve using .htaccess rules so plz let me give one chance to prove it
Relevant Skills and Experience
I have 2 year of strong knowledge in PHP website development with codeigniter, laravel, NodeJs and Yii-2 framework.
Additional skill : HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Jquery, Java script, AJAX,FTP knowledge.