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):
- [Enums That Explain Themselves: __debugInfo() in PHP 8.6](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-86-enum-debuginfo-readable-dumps-laravel)- [Where Is the Signature? Jev Box Questions on Laravel Image Uploads](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-jev-box-questions-locate-image-regions)
- [Syntax Error, Line 1: PHP 8.6 Finally Tells You Where Your JSON Broke](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-86-json-decode-error-position-laravel)
- [declare(strict_types=1) in Laravel: What It Actually Changes](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-declare-strict-types-laravel-what-changes)
- [Nested Modals Without Losing Your Place: Filament's Stacked Action Modals](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-stacked-action-modals-overlay-parent)
- [Classifying Into a Deep Category Tree with Jev and Beam Search in Laravel](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-jev-hierarchical-classification-category-tree)
