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):
- [Automated Laravel Database Backups to S3 with spatie/laravel-backup](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-backup-automated-database-s3)- [Laravel Context: Request Data That Follows Your Logs and Jobs](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-context-request-scoped-logging-jobs)
- [PHP 8.4: Chain Methods on new Without the Extra Parentheses](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-84-new-without-parentheses-chaining)
- [Laravel AI SDK Tool Calling: Let the Model Run Your PHP](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-tool-calling-typed-functions)
- [Tailwind Subgrid: Align Card Grids to a Parent Grid](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-subgrid-aligned-card-grids)
- [Tailwind v4 @reference: Fix @apply in Blade & Scoped CSS](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-reference-directive-blade-scoped-css)
