CTO @ Digitonic · Laravel engineer · Technical leader
Engineering, taught & leadership, practised — from the west coast of Scotland.
I'm Steven — Chief Technology Officer at Digitonic, where I build and lead teams shipping production Laravel for investor relations and iGaming. I've been writing PHP since the 5.1 days and Laravel since its early releases.
I write long-form, code-first deep-dives on Laravel, architecture, DDD, and the craft of leading software teams over at richdynamix.com — and I'm usually chasing a better golf handicap when I'm away from the keyboard.
- Site & writing → richdynamix.com
- Latest articles → richdynamix.com/articles
- What I'm doing now → richdynamix.com/now
I maintain a handful of packages and developer tools — full list on Packagist and across my repositories.
- arc — Production-ready, Docker-based development environment for Laravel.
- laravel-firebase — A small Laravel wrapper for the Firebase PHP SDK.
- chatbase-api — Chatbase API client built for Laravel.
- magestead — The Vagrant solution for Magento developers.
The newest deep-dives from richdynamix.com/articles (updated automatically):
- [PHP 8.6 Changes Your Session Defaults: What Breaks in a Laravel App](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-86-secure-session-defaults-laravel)- [PHP 8.6's SortDirection Enum: Typed Sorting in Laravel Queries and Collections](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-86-sort-direction-enum-laravel-sorting)
- [Filament Tables That Work on a Phone: Stacked Rows in v5.2](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-stacked-table-rows-mobile-responsive)
- [Stop Fighting pecl: Installing PHP Extensions with PIE](https://richdynamix.com/articles/pie-php-extension-installer-laravel-docker)
- [Stop Asking the Model for a Verdict: Composite Scoring with Jev in Laravel](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-jev-composite-scoring-weighted-decisions)
- [fopen() Returned false. Why? PHP 8.6's Stream Error API](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-86-stream-errors-streamexception-laravel)
