About Me
Hello 👋 I'm a Software Engineer from Alsager, Cheshire, UK. I'm passionate about technology, whether that's hosted in the cloud or hardware in my own home.
Experience
September 2026 · Present
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Laravel
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Laravel, I work on Laravel Cloud, building the infrastructure that powers the platform.
February 2026 · September 2026
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Laravel
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Laravel, I worked on Laravel Cloud, building the infrastructure that powers the platform. I developed Laravel Cloud's Managed Queues, building the infrastructure behind automatic worker provisioning and autoscaling.
March 2025 · February 2026
Senior Software Engineer, Core Services
Laravel
As a Senior Software Engineer working in Core Services at Laravel, I architected and elevated Laravel's core infrastructure, powering Forge, Envoyer, and Vapor to deliver seamless deployment solutions. I'm particularly proud of building Laravel VPS from the ground up, including the networking and instant provisioning infrastructure that powers it. I also contributed to the relaunch of Laravel Forge.
December 2023 · March 2025
Senior DevOps Engineer
Chatloop
As the sole DevOps Engineer at Chatloop, I was responsible for building and maintaining scalable infrastructure that enables rapid, reliable product delivery.
June 2022 · December 2023
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Click Dealer
As the Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Click Dealer, I was responsible for overseeing the entire AWS estate, cloud account management, platform engineering and being proactive to ensure the highest availability of our systems.
April 2022 · June 2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Disney Streaming
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Disney Streaming, I enhanced observability infrastructure using OpenTelemetry and optimized Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for their enterprise-scale streaming services.
March 2021 · April 2022
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Click Dealer
As the Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Click Dealer, I was responsible for overseeing the entire AWS estate, cloud account management, platform engineering and being proactive to ensure the highest availability of our systems.
October 2016 · March 2021
DevOps Engineer / SWE
Click Dealer
As an Engineer at Click Dealer, I led backend development initiatives using Laravel/PHP, where I architected scalable applications and took ownership of new projects. I implemented CI/CD processes through Docker containerization, established company-wide coding standards, and served as Lead API Developer for a multi-award-winning project while providing technical guidance to the development team.
Let's Connect
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