Alex Garrett-smith
Technical Education Lead
Preston, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlex Garrett-smith is a Technical Education Lead and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building web applications and mentoring developers. He founded and scaled Codecourse, a prominent Laravel learning platform acquired in September 2025, demonstrating an unusual blend of product-led growth and deep technical teaching. His background includes senior engineering and web architecture roles at DAZN and JustPark, giving him strong experience in both startup and enterprise environments. Based in Preston, UK, Alex excels at turning complex backend and full‑stack concepts into digestible learning experiences and pragmatic engineering practices. Colleagues know him for pairing entrepreneurial grit with a teacher’s patience, often shipping tooling and tutorials that make adoption easier for teams and individuals.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (157)
ecosystem10
laravel10
voyager10
flash-messages10
full-stack10
vue10
nuxt10
laravel-package10
summernote10
php10
popularity9
validation9
fractal9
slim9
mvc-architecture9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codecourse/notify
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Flexible flash notifications for Laravel
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
flashnotificationsflash-messagesflash-notificationslaravel
alexgarrett/violin
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
An easy to use, highly customisable PHP validator.
Contributions:8 releases, 54 PRs, 81 pushes in 9 months
phpvalidatorcustomisablevalidation
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