Daniel Coulbourne
Founder at Thunk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Coulbourne is a founder and hands-on technical lead with 11 years building web products, currently running Thunk, a boutique product development agency in Philadelphia. He specializes in the TALL stack (Laravel, Livewire, AlpineJS, Tailwind) but brings full‑stack fluency across React, React Native and Vue, enabling him to shepherd projects from strategy through delivery alongside his co-founder product manager. A long-time contributor to Tighten’s popular Ziggy library, he’s improved route handling, encoding, and test coverage—demonstrating a focus on robust integrations and quality. Practical and product-minded, he pairs a philosophy background with an engineer’s attention to UX and reliability, and has recently been exploring Rust for performance‑oriented tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at Covenant College
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
php10
javascript10
web-development10
routes10
livewire10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
backend9
back-end-development9
url-encoding8
front-end-development8
validation6
web-crawler6
goutte6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tighten/ziggy
Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
Use your Laravel routes in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 111 commits, 135 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the development of a JavaScript library for integrating Laravel routes into JavaScript applications. Their work included implementing features for handling route parameters, including optional and query parameters. The user also focused on improving the library's functionality by adding error handling and URL encoding, enhancing the overall robustness and usability of the library. Furthermore, they updated the testing suite, demonstrating a focus on maintaining code quality and ensuring the library's reliability.
javascriptlaravel-routeslaravelroutesziggy
DanielCoulbourne/livewire
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
takesfull-stackphpframeworklaravel
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