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Max

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Sydney, Australia

Hi, I'm an engineering lead working in Sydney for a fast-growing startup called Cover Genius. I have been working on APIs for quite a long time now, and these days API development along with microservice architectures and SPAs tends to be my bread and butter.

I maintain and develop community projects that are highly used (and useful), and have created some cool new innovative packages/projects as well, and I have many more ideas on what to contribute. Where I am working now, we have a lot of complex enterprisey architectural problems to solve; relating to microservices, distributed APIs, multi-tenancy and other fun stuff, so I try and contribute bits of pieces of my ideas and work to github as I can.

Check out my API boilerplate project, as much of my work revolves around that and various add-ons to it and dependencies thereof.

I aim to put out packages that are easy to get into and get going with, but which also offer complex and enterprise-level features - as I generally find enterprise-scale stuff missing from the Laravel ecosystem.

I think Laravel and the work Taylor has done is fantastic, but the community definitely has it's place filling in the various gaps that do exist. If you sponsor me, it gives me more time, opportunity - and most importantly motivation to spend more time on my open-source contributions.

Me at last years Laracon AU with my buddies

At last year's Laracon AU with my friends

@specialtactics

Working on a proper and fully featured HMAC-based authentication driver for Laravel.

Featured work

  1. specialtactics/laravel-api-boilerplate

    Laravel API Boilerplate | Quickly build quality API products!

    PHP 499
  2. specialtactics/l5-api

    Laravel API Dependecy Package - Used by the Laravel API Boilerplate

    PHP 33
  3. specialtactics/Elasticquent

    Maps Laravel Eloquent models to Elasticsearch types

    PHP
  4. specialtactics/l5-db-extensions

    Laravel 5 Database Extensions

    PHP
  5. specialtactics/laravel-dingo-api

    A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.

    PHP 2
  6. specialtactics/math-php

    Powerful modern math library for PHP: Features descriptive statistics and regressions; Continuous and discrete probability distributions; Linear algebra with matrices and vectors, Numerical analysi…

    PHP 1

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At this level, I'd be happy to do a 1-2 hour presentation helping to up-skill engineers in your organisation on any topic I deal with (APIs, Microservices, Laravel, etc). Can do in-person in Sydney CBD.

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For corporate sponsors who find themselves benefitting from my work, and those who want a little sway in the prioritisation of features and overall roadmap of my packages.

*I do emphasise, just a little sway! If you want my freelancing services, feel free to contact me privately.

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