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):
- [Measure and Enforce Type Coverage with Pest's Type Coverage Plugin](https://richdynamix.com/articles/pest-type-coverage-enforce-typed-laravel)- [Cache Composer and NPM in GitHub Actions to Speed Up Laravel CI](https://richdynamix.com/articles/github-actions-cache-composer-npm-laravel-ci)
- [Run Independent Work in Parallel with Laravel's Concurrency Facade](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-concurrency-facade-parallel-tasks)
- [Deploy Laravel to a VPS with Kamal 2: A Complete Guide](https://richdynamix.com/articles/deploy-laravel-kamal-2-vps-docker)
- [Build Custom Table Filters in Filament v4](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v4-custom-table-filters)
- [Show an Unsaved-Changes Indicator with Livewire's wire:dirty](https://richdynamix.com/articles/livewire-4-wire-dirty-unsaved-changes-indicator)
