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):
- [Renovate for Laravel: Automated Composer and npm Updates That Do Not Drown You in PRs](https://richdynamix.com/articles/renovate-automated-dependency-updates-laravel)- [Serve Laravel's Vite Assets from a CDN with Immutable Cache Headers](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-vite-assets-cdn-cloudfront-immutable-caching)
- [Numbers That Stop Jittering: Tailwind v4's font-features Utility](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-font-features-tabular-numbers-ligatures)
- [Ask a Model About a PDF: Document Attachments in the Laravel AI SDK](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-document-attachments-pdf-analysis)
- [Laravel File Storage: The Complete Guide to Disks, Private Files, Direct Uploads and Signed URLs](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-file-storage-uploads-complete-guide)
- [The Widget That Forgets: Partitioned Cookies in PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-85-partitioned-cookies-chips-laravel)
