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):
- [Build Custom Pest Expectations for Your Laravel Domain Language](https://richdynamix.com/articles/pest-custom-expectations-domain-assertions)- [Write a Custom PHPStan Rule to Enforce Your Laravel Conventions](https://richdynamix.com/articles/phpstan-custom-rule-enforce-laravel-conventions)
- [PHP Randomizer Engines: Choosing Between Secure, Seeded and Fast Randomness in Laravel](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-randomizer-engines-secure-seeded-randomness)
- [The #[\Override] Attribute: Catching Broken Laravel Inheritance at Compile Time](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-override-attribute-safer-laravel-inheritance)
- [Style State with Tailwind v4 data-* and aria-* Variants](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-data-aria-attribute-variants)
- [Switch Laravel to Immutable Dates with CarbonImmutable](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-datetimeimmutable-carbon-immutable-laravel)
