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):
- [Tailwind v4 Logical Properties: Ship RTL Layouts Without a Single rtl: Override](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-logical-properties-rtl-bidirectional-layouts)- [json_validate() vs try/catch json_decode(): Checking JSON Without Building It](https://richdynamix.com/articles/php-json-validate-check-payloads-without-decoding)
- [Generate Speech from Text in Laravel with the AI SDK's Audio Class](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-text-to-speech-audio-voices)
- [Transcribe Audio in Laravel with the AI SDK: Uploads, Storage and Speaker Diarization](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-audio-transcription-diarization)
- [Run Laravel Behind PgBouncer in Transaction Mode Without Breaking Booleans](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-pgbouncer-transaction-pooling-prepared-statements)
- [Laravel Sanctum in Production: API Tokens, Abilities and SPA Sessions](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-sanctum-api-tokens-abilities-spa-complete-guide)
