Rainy Sundays
Rich Gwilliam's digital shed
Rich Gwilliam Full Stack Developer
Rich is a full stack developer with a love of building cool stuff with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, Linux, and all kinds of open source tech.
He's all about getting stuff done and learning new things to do it right.
Give him money and he'll probably do it for you, he's nice like that.
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
- rich.gwilliam@gmail.com
- Website
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Laravel
PHP has a lot of Content Management Systems, many of which I'm very familiar with. Most of them are extremely configurable, allowing you to make your own data types to form your content semantically.
Take a few steps further in that direction and you'll find frameworks like Laravel or Zend, that - while lending themselves very well to familar structures, are more designed to support your web application in a bespoke, form-fitting scaffold.
Laravel is an excellent choice currently, with a neat MVC model and extremely florid ecosystem. It can run something as simple as this website (with the capacity to support the more complex functionality I have planned) or as complex as a node structured fintech loan broking system (which I know first-hand).
I'm very familiar with Laravel, its Eloquent database layer, services, and so on - I built a bespoke diagnostic system for a client, measuring performance of various subsystems to eke out microseconds of performance. When used as an API paired with a Vue front end, Laravel really shows what a modern web application can do.
I've been using Laravel since Jun 2020 (5 years).
Engagements using Laravel
Senior Web Developer
Vivedia
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021At Vivedia I worked on high-volume API systems providing on-demand streaming video to customers. As a personal project, I updated internal systems to greatly improve the efficiency of services supporting the vital ops team.
- PHP
- Laravel
- Vue
- Agile
- API development
- DataTables
- Ops Development
- Git
- Jira
- Project planning
- CICD
Contract Senior Full-stack Developer
Eido Healthcare
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024Successful resurrection of a mothballed legacy Craft CMS project without documentation or input from the original developer; planning and provisioning of AWS infrastructure to support the software based on Docker images.
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- Git
- NPM
- Javascript
- Craft CMS
- Linux
- LAMP Stack Admin
- Amazon EC2
- AWS Suite
- Laravel
- Docker
- BASH
- Figma
- Project planning
- Ops Development
- High capacity systems
- Apache
- Postman
- API development
- Technical writing
Contract Senior Full-stack Developer
STS Commercial
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025Development of high-precision bespoke analytics and diagnostic modules on a Laravel base to surface opportunities and weaknesses in extremely high-volume, fast moving Fintech data and fine-tune performance for emerging markets. Innovative and intuitive modelling of data, completely revolutionizing how stakeholders analyse performance.
- Laravel
- Javascript
- CSS
- HTML
- PHP
- API development
- Vue
- Database Migrations
- Linux
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- Figma
- LAMP Stack Admin
- BASH
- NPM
- NodeJS
- Postman
- High capacity systems
- Ops Development
- Jira
- MAMP stack admin
- Technical writing