Emma De Silva
Backend Developer at Grebban
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma De Silva is a backend-focused Laravel/PHP engineer and founder who blends four years of hands-on product development with practical security expertise. As creator and lead engineer of HydePHP, she maintains open-source packages, custom CI/CD and documentation while driving community growth and code intelligence. Now building scalable headless e-commerce APIs at Grebban, she pairs API and database performance tuning with seamless third-party integrations. An active Filament contributor, she’s improved UI components like tables and IconColumn sizing—showing she moves fluidly between backend architecture and front-end UX details. Based in Malmö, Sweden, she brings a startup founder’s operational experience and security leadership to shipping reliable, auditable systems.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
CS50, Computer Science, CS50, Computer Science at Harvard OnlineSOCIAL SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES at Hermods AB
Github Skills (13)
datatables10
uid10
php10
tailwindcss10
livewire10
front-end-development10
laravel10
ui-design10
laravel-mix10
temp-tables10
alpinejs9
forms8
admin8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
filamentphp/filament
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
A collection of beautiful full-stack components for Laravel. The perfect starting point for your next app. Using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 19 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Emma focused on enhancing the FilamentPHP tables component, a key feature of the Laravel-based admin panel. They implemented functionality for actions column labels, allowing for custom positioning and display within the table. Furthermore, they made improvements to the `IconColumn` component by allowing size customization and incorporating changes to match button icon sizes, enhancing UI flexibility. Additional contributions included code style fixes and documentation enhancements.
cmsfor-humanstall-stackadmin-panelform-builder
caendesilva/laravel-sparkle
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Opinionated Lumen-like Laravel hybrid starter-kit.
Contributions:16 PRs, 13 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
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