Dave Liddament
Director at Lamp Bristol Ltd.
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Liddament is a director and seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience building resilient web platforms and APIs from Bristol. He leads Lamp Bristol, a compact team that delivers high-impact bespoke software—supporting clients with £5M+ combined turnover—and has built systems used by 350,000+ people and helped a client reach £1M ARR. A committed open-source author with projects downloaded over 1.5 million times, he pairs hands-on engineering (Java, Python, PHP, JS) with pragmatic architecture and CI/testing disciplines. Dave is also an international conference speaker and educator who has trained thousands of developers in static analysis, testing, refactoring, and clean code. He combines end-to-end delivery experience—from data-heavy modelling and mapping to enterprise Java backends—with a focus on removing tedious work so teams can focus on value. Less obvious: many of his production systems have run reliably for a decade, reflecting an emphasis on longevity and maintainability over short-term trends.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, A Levels at Henley CollegeMEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at University of Bristol
Github Skills (72)
dependency-analysis10
testing10
coverage10
security10
automated-refactoring10
linter10
refactoring10
type-inference10
static-analysis10
clean-architecture10
codeclimate10
phpstan10
static-code-analysis10
rector10
infection10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DaveLiddament/phpstan-php-language-extensions
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
PHPStan extension for validating php-language-extensions
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 60 commits in 10 months
validationlanguage-extensionsphp-languagephpphpstan-extension
DaveLiddament/phpstan-rules-tutorial
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Repo to support the PHPStan rules tutorial
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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