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):
- [Upgrade to Filament v5: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide from v4](https://richdynamix.com/articles/filament-v5-upgrade-from-v4-guide)- [Give Laravel AI SDK Agents External Tools with MCP Servers](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-mcp-tools-connect-agents)
- [Refactor Messy Conditionals with Laravel's Pipeline Facade](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-pipeline-facade-sequential-stages)
- [Debug Livewire and Eloquent Faster with Spatie Ray](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ray-debug-livewire-eloquent)
- [Run Laravel AI SDK Agents in the Background with Queued Jobs](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-queue-background-agent-runs)
- [Build a Snap-Scrolling Carousel with Tailwind v4 (No JS)](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-scroll-snap-carousel-slider)
