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):
- [Filament v5 Authorization: Policies, Roles and Permissions Complete Guide](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-authorization-policies-roles-permissions-complete-guide)- [Share One Laravel Pint Config Across Every Project](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-pint-custom-rules-shared-config)
- [Build a Custom Filament v5 Page that Hosts Livewire Widgets](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-custom-page-livewire-widgets)
- [Stream a File Download from a Livewire 4 Action](https://richdynamix.com/articles/livewire-4-streamed-file-download-response)
- [Blue-Green Deployments for Laravel with an Nginx Upstream Switch](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-blue-green-deployment-nginx-upstream)
- [Add a Docker HEALTHCHECK to a Laravel Queue Worker Container](https://richdynamix.com/articles/docker-healthcheck-laravel-queue-worker)
