Laravel developer with 10 years' experience, and a top 13 all-time contributor to the Laravel framework.
Summary
Most of my framework PRs started as real problems I hit at work. Particularly with queues, at the kind of scale a major UK supermarket brings.
Experience
- Software Developer, Fusions PIM
- Feature work on a large Laravel platform for the UK's third-largest supermarket, with queues at serious scale.
- Owned the move to Laravel Cloud from start to finish.
- Software Developer, Cloud Construct
- Lead developer on an asset finance platform, plus Laravel and Shopify work for agency clients.
- Director & Head of Development, Polytech IT
- Led a small development team and built web and mobile apps, including one with 10,000+ users.
- Web Developer, Johnson Test Papers
- Websites, e-commerce and in-house systems, plus a bespoke mobile app for the NHS.
- Data Analyst & Web Developer (Apprentice), Halesowen College
- Where it started: internal systems, reporting and my first steps into PHP.
Open source
I contribute to open source regularly, and it feeds directly into my day-to-day work. Alongside the framework, I maintain laravel-dom-assertions and contribute across the wider Laravel ecosystem. See more on GitHub.
Skills
PHP, Laravel, Livewire, Pest and MySQL. Also Vue, React, React Native, Python and AWS.
Education
- HNC, Computing and Systems Development 2017
- BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma, Software & Games Development 2015
Get in touch
Interested, or want the full version? Email me at [email protected].