Dean Blackborough
Tech Lead at Costs to Expect
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDean Blackborough is a pragmatic Tech Lead with over two decades of PHP experience and twelve years in professional roles, currently leading engineering at Gambling.com Group while co-founding the Costs to Expect suite (including the open-source Budget and commercial Budget Pro). He combines deep framework expertise—Laravel, Yii, Zend—with hands-on knowledge of C++, Python, Perl and C#, enabling him to bridge legacy systems and modern stacks. Dean has a strong history of rebuilding and modernising long-lived applications (PHP8, MySQL8 migrations) and designing complex B2B systems with integrations like Business Central and UPS. Equally comfortable in backend REST APIs, testing and automation, he favours pragmatic engineering and shipping resilient, well-tested solutions. Outside work he tinkers with game development and his own C++ engine, reflecting a long-standing curiosity that feeds into creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
141reputation
1kreached
4answers
1question
Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
costs-to-expect/budget
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Budgeting via the Costs to Expect API
Contributions:32 releases, 404 commits, 149 PRs in 6 months
apibudgetingexpensescosts-to-expectdocker-compose
deanblackborough/costs-to-expect-website
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
The public website for the Costs to Expect service, tracks costs to raise our children to adulthood
Contributions:79 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 10 months
costs-to-expectadulthoodraisecoststracks
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