Steve McDougall
Treherbert, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSteve Mcdougall is a Technical Director based in Treherbert, Wales, with a decade of experience blending hands‑on full‑stack engineering, technical writing, and leadership. He serves on the PHP FIG core committee and is a regular columnist for php[architect], demonstrating deep engagement with the PHP community alongside roles in developer advocacy and engineering management. Steve has led engineering teams and CTO functions across startups and non‑profits, delivering compliant cloud environments (including IL4/Official‑sensitive level work) and building developer education platforms. He founded PHP South Wales to run monthly community events and frequently translates complex technical topics into accessible content for practitioners. A former British Army soldier and tank operator, he brings operational discipline and risk‑aware decision making to technical strategy and incident‑ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
envoyer10
tencent10
api-monitoring10
micro-framework10
api10
application-framework10
saas10
inheritance10
laravel-package10
php10
complexity10
api-client10
terraform10
webservices10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JustSteveKing/SMS
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
An SMS Sender for the TextLocal API
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 5 months
apitextlocalsmssendersms-sender
JustSteveKing/laravel-redoc
May 2021 - Apr 2022
A simple API documentation package for Laravel using OpenAPI and Redoc
Contributions:6 releases, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
apiredocapi-documentationsimple-apilaravel
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