Ben Corlett
Managing Director at Webcomm Pty Ltd
Morisset, New South Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarBen Corlett is a Managing Director and seasoned back-end engineer with 15 years of experience building and improving PHP web frameworks and libraries. Based in Morisset, NSW, he combines leadership at Webcomm Pty Ltd with hands-on open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Laravel and Illuminate, adding features such as dynamic query clauses, MessageBag interface support, and dot-notation session access. His work spans core framework internals, OAuth client implementations, and performance-minded schema tweaks—demonstrating both deep framework knowledge and attention to developer ergonomics. Ben also contributes front-end improvements for real-world storefront tooling, showing an appreciation for UX as well as backend robustness. An often-overlooked strength is his focus on backward compatibility and PHP version support, which has made libraries more usable across diverse environments.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (59)
application-framework10
database-migrations10
authorizations10
query-builder10
bootstrap10
apidoc10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
databases10
authentication10
user-authentication10
object-oriented-programming10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/oauth1-client
May 2013 - Aug 2021
OAuth 1 Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 12 reviews, 173 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben is contributing to an OAuth 1.0 client library. Their work involves creating various classes and interfaces related to signing and handling requests, which include HMAC-SHA1, Plain Text, and general signature implementations. Furthermore, the user is setting up the foundation for retrieving temporary and token credentials, as well as the authorization process. This includes defining methods, integrating external libraries, and setting up the base structure for Twitter and Tumblr servers.
oauth
webcomm/magento-boilerplate
Aug 2012 - Jul 2018
HTML5 Twitter Bootstrap 3.1 Magento Boilerplate Template
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:336 commits, 11 PRs, 77 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Magento boilerplate template. They focused on updating styles, integrating Font Awesome, and refactoring UI elements. The user's work involved modifying CSS, JavaScript, and template files, as well as incorporating Bootstrap and other front-end libraries, to improve the look, feel, and functionality of the template. They also added a basic module for bootstrap-based standard navigation, which suggests a focus on improving user experience and design.
bootstrapmagentotwitter-bootstrap
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