Daniel Mason
Lead Software Developer at Kirschbaum
Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDaniel Mason is a Lead Software Developer with 9+ years of full-stack experience, now based in Wolverhampton and leading engineering at Kirschbaum. He specializes in Laravel and PHP back-end work but also contributes full-stack improvementsâshipping features, tests, and bug fixes across prominent open-source projects including the Laravel framework and FilamentPHP. Daniel publishes his own reusable packages on GitHub and has a track record of improving caching, HTTP client behavior, queueing, and webhook robustness in widely used repos. A pragmatic engineer who rose through hands-on roles from testing and systems analysis to senior and lead positions, he pairs production-focused coding with a habit of extracting common patterns into reusable OSS components.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A2 Level AS Level Media Studies Applied IT Music Technology Psychology Photography, A2 Level AS Level Media Studies Applied IT Music Technology Psychology Photography at Farnborough Sixth Form CollegeMaster of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of WolverhamptonGCSE Philosophy Maths ICT Theology History French Physics English Language/Literature Chemistry, GCSE Philosophy Maths ICT Theology History French Physics English Language/Literature Chemistry at Salesian College, Farnborough
Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
caching10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
webhooks10
testing10
livewire10
laravel10
queuing10
guzzle10
datatables10
http-client10
php10
tailwindcss10
jwt10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PHP-Open-Source-Saver/jwt-auth
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
đ JSON Web Token Authentication for Laravel & Lumen
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel contributed to the PHP-based JWT authentication package. The commits focused on enhancing the project by adding comprehensive unit tests for the service provider. These tests aimed to ensure the correct registration and functionality of various components within the Laravel/Lumen service provider. Further commits addressed code style issues by running php-cs-fixer and added Octane compatibility.
laravel-lumenphpauthenticationjson-web-tokentoken
mikebronner/laravel-model-caching
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Eloquent model-caching made easy.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 38 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `laravel-model-caching` package, adding support for features such as truncate operations and handling JSON contains queries. They also addressed bug fixes and improved the package's functionality by implementing features like the whereJsonLength test. The user's work involved modifying core caching logic and database interactions within the Laravel framework, including test case updates. Further contributions included adding sub query tests and updating Nova tests.
laravel-5-packagecachingphpmodelscache
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