Bentley聽O'kanechase
Senior Software Developer at Digistorm
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolBentley O'kanechase is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience building systems, APIs, apps and websites from the Gold Coast, Australia. He specializes in PHP (Laravel), JavaScript (Vue.js), hybrid apps (Cordova/Ionic) and relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), delivering pragmatic full-stack solutions at Digistorm since 2017. Bentley brings a background in multimedia and interactive entertainment programming, which informs his attention to UX and front-end polish as well as backend robustness. He is an active open-source contributor, having improved validation logic and configurability in the widely used spatie/laravel-data package. Known for reducing code duplication and making validation rules more flexible, he blends practical engineering with a knack for thoughtful refactors. Colleagues value his clear communication, customer-focused mindset and willingness to tackle both design and deep technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia, Interactive Entertainment & Games Programming, Bachelor of Multimedia, Interactive Entertainment & Games Programming at Griffith UniversityCert. IV, Multimedia, Cert. IV, Multimedia at TAFE NSWUpper Coomera State College
Github Skills (5)
php10
data-validation10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spatie/laravel-data
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Powerful data objects for Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Bentley primarily contributed to the `spatie/laravel-data` repository by adding features and improvements to the validation attributes. Their work includes adding support for `withoutTrashed` to the `exists` validation attribute, enhancing data validation capabilities. The user also updated the code related to relative rule generation to incorporate a more configurable approach within the project. Furthermore, the user refactored code to reduce duplication within the validation logic.
laravelphp
bentleyo/laravel-data
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Powerful data objects for Laravel
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 4 months
laravelphpdatabase
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