Work History

Responsible for creating the Laravel certification curriculum, designing code challenges, running bootcamps, and representing certificates.dev at industry events and conferences as a speaker.

• Created the Laravel certification curriculum
• Designed and authored code challenges for candidate assessment
• Led and facilitated Laravel bootcamps for developer upskilling
• Represented certificates.dev at industry events and conferences as a speaker

Led comprehensive developer education initiatives, creating extensive technical content library that significantly increased API adoption and community engagement. Represented Treblle at major international conferences, gathering critical community feedback that directly influenced product roadmap. Built practical demo projects and sample code that dramatically simplified product onboarding and accelerated developer success.

• Created 50+ technical resources (articles, videos, livestreams) on APIs and observability
• Represented Treblle at conferences and community events, bringing developer feedback back to the product
• Built demo projects reducing user onboarding time from 2 hours to 30 minutes
• Served as the link between the developer community and Treblle's product teams

Managed cross-functional engineering teams delivering high-performance Laravel applications for major manufacturing clients. Implemented comprehensive process improvements including enhanced code review workflows and automated testing, resulting in significant bug reduction. Mentored engineers through structured career development programs and technical coaching sessions.

• Managed cross-functional teams of 12+ engineers across 3 products
• Implemented process improvements reducing production bugs by 30%
• Delivered high-performance Laravel applications for manufacturing clients
• Strengthened release reliability through code review and CI/CD practices

Published comprehensive articles on Laravel internals, package development, and architectural best practices for the Laravel community's primary news source. Produced educational content specifically targeting intermediate-to-advanced Laravel developers, focusing on real-world application and performance optimisation. Actively highlighted innovative open-source projects and community contributions to foster ecosystem growth.

• Published 25+ in-depth Laravel tutorials and best practice guides
• Wrote for intermediate-to-advanced Laravel developers
• Highlighted 50+ open-source projects, contributing to community growth

Led backend engineering for one of the UK's highest-traffic community platforms, architecting Laravel solutions for millions of users. Designed and maintained critical APIs that improved system reliability and dramatically reduced response times. Collaborated closely with product and design teams to ship engagement-driving features while mentoring junior engineers and establishing improved development workflows.

• Led backend engineering for platform serving 1.5M+ monthly active users
• Designed and maintained APIs that improved reliability and reduced response times
• Mentored junior engineers and introduced improved code review workflows

Oversaw talented engineering team building Laravel-powered systems for the UK and Europe's largest classic car marketplace. Introduced structured agile planning processes that improved team velocity and delivery consistency. Led infrastructure initiatives ensuring exceptional uptime while fostering high-trust, high-impact team culture through regular coaching and mentorship.

• Led team building Laravel systems for UK's largest classic car marketplace
• Implemented agile processes improving team velocity by 25%
• Maintained 99.9% uptime for platform processing £50M+ in transactions

Led engineering initiatives across multiple client projects at a Laravel-focused digital agency, from discovery through technical delivery. Implemented comprehensive CI/CD automation that dramatically reduced release times while establishing rigorous testing and code quality standards. Played key role in hiring and onboarding while shaping a culture of technical craftsmanship and accountability.

• Led engineering across 8+ concurrent client projects
• Implemented CI/CD automation that dramatically reduced release times
• Established testing standards achieving 85%+ code coverage
• Successfully hired and onboarded 5 senior developers

Owned architecture and delivery of mission-critical Laravel-based financial products, including complex real-time data pipelines and third-party integrations. Worked closely with stakeholders to align ambitious business objectives with technical execution while enforcing high engineering standards to ensure code quality and long-term maintainability.

• Architected Laravel-based financial products handling £10M+ transactions
• Built real-time data pipelines processing 100,000+ daily events
• Integrated with 12+ third-party financial APIs maintaining 99.5% uptime

Advised TechVets, a non-profit that helps veterans into technology careers, on moving forward in the technology space and scaling its digital business.

• Advised a veterans' non-profit on technology strategy
• Helped scale its digital business

Established technical foundation and product architecture for innovative SaaS platform. Led development from initial MVP through market-ready product launch, establishing development practices and technical standards that supported sustainable growth.

• Designed the initial product architecture
• Established development practices and technical foundations
• Led product from MVP to market-ready SaaS platform

Led software at innovecom.

• Led the software function

Managed and built the Codez education platform, designed for schools and teachers to teach children how to code. Created and delivered training courses for adult learners across a range of languages, and worked on the company's business plans, financial plans and partner management.

• Built the Codez platform for teaching children to code in schools
• Created and delivered coding courses for adult learners
• Shaped business plans, financial plans and partner management

Created PHP South Wales to bring developers together regardless of background or experience level. Hosted monthly events featuring diverse speakers and topics, fostering continuous learning and professional growth. Built a welcoming community that became a launching pad for many developers' careers and established lasting connections across the Welsh tech scene.

• Founded and grew community from 0 to 200+ active members
• Organised 40+ monthly meetups featuring international speakers
• Mentored developers through workshops and networking events
• Established Wales as a recognised hub in the PHP community

Promoted from Head of Development. Worked alongside the CEO, shareholders and development team, leading development of the platform and managing the workload so that all work aligned to the company vision and progress could be reported to shareholders.

• Promoted from Head of Development to CTO
• Led platform development and reported progress to shareholders

Headed up the development team, working on a modern stack alongside the CEO and shareholders.

• Headed up the development team

Managed the development team at a tech-for-good company providing a SaaS case-management platform for multi-agency collaboration across public and private sector clients. Split time 80:20 between development and management, working to an agile methodology.

• Built a cloud environment compliant to Official Sensitive (IL4), with security managed, assessed and fully audited
• Interviewed and technically assessed every member of the development team
• Managed the team 80:20 between development and management

Full-stack developer working from front end to back end on projects for clients from large brands to small companies, with datasets from simple to very large and complex.

• Full-stack development for clients from large brands to small companies
• Worked with large, complex datasets

Freelance developer covering white-label back-end development, often taking project lead alongside other developers and designers to deliver on time and on budget. Work ranged from static sites to web applications, security testing and RESTful API construction.

• White-label back-end development for agencies and designers
• Took project lead to deliver on time and on budget
• Built RESTful APIs and security testing solutions

Organised and maintained the hosting, and developed client websites on a range of CMSs and a bespoke content management system.

• Maintained the hosting platform
• Built client websites on off-the-shelf and bespoke CMSs

Worked on both the programming and the servers for a new online social experience, in bespoke PHP and JavaScript, and handled the server side from load balancing to CDN.

• Built a social platform in bespoke PHP and JavaScript
• Ran the infrastructure, from load balancing to CDN

One of the staff technical writers for an online Linux magazine with writers around the world, covering Linux reviews, tutorials and code examples.

• Wrote Linux reviews, tutorials and code examples for an international online magazine

Web developer and helpdesk support at Morello Digital, specialising in Drupal development with secure coding practices, and handling website and server support.

• Specialised in secure Drupal development
• Provided website and server support

An introduction to agency work across Joomla, WordPress, Magento and bespoke projects, from advertising websites to SMS API components alongside existing CMSs.

• Built sites across Joomla, WordPress and Magento
• Integrated SMS APIs with existing CMSs

Linux system administrator: monitoring networks, finding and fixing faults, first-line support, researching new tools and supporting the development team.

• Monitored networks and fixed faults
• Provided first-line support and researched new tools

Tank Crewman in the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, with a frontline tour in Afghanistan on route clearance. Crewed and maintained the Challenger 2 main battle tank, and trained in mechanical engineering through the Army's apprenticeship scheme. Systematic diagnosis and calm under pressure came from here.

• Served a frontline tour in Afghanistan on route clearance
• Crewed and maintained the Challenger 2 main battle tank
• Completed an NVQ Level 2 in Mechanical Engineering through the Army apprenticeship scheme