James Brooks
Head Of Enterprise Enablement at Checkmango
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Brooks is a seasoned software leader with 15 years’ experience, currently heading Enterprise Enablement at Laravel and previously leading Core Services for the framework. A long-time Laravel Core Team member and engineering lead, he combines hands-on backend development with product-focused developer tooling—contributing features and fixes across laravel/framework and supporting tools like Envoyer, Forge and Nova. Founder of Cachet and Checkmango, he has a strong open-source pedigree (Cachet is a well-known self-hosted status page) and practical DevOps skills, including Dockerizing projects and improving migration and database tooling. His contributions span thoughtful internationalization, API client enhancements, and image-manipulation features, reflecting a pragmatic attention to developer experience and global users. Based in the UK, James blends entrepreneurial grit with deep PHP/Laravel expertise, often shipping small, high-impact improvements that quietly raise platform quality.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma in ICT, BTEC National Diploma in ICT at South Cheshire College
English
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Github Skills (54)
unit-testing10
docker10
laravel-mix10
docker-image10
databases10
internationalization10
object-oriented-programming10
laravel10
dockers10
webp10
php10
localization10
github-api10
sql10
image-manipulation10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
cachethq/cachet
Nov 2014 - Oct 2021
🚦 Cachet, the open-source, self-hosted status page system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 5 reviews, 4678 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:James has primarily contributed to localizing the Cachet software, adding translations for various languages like Albanian, Chinese Traditional, Portuguese, and Afrikaans. These efforts involved updating the translation files for various components such as cachet.php, dashboard.php, and forms.php, contributing to the overall internationalization of the project and making it more accessible to a wider audience.
cachetphpstatuspageweb-applicationstatus
thephpleague/glide
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Wonderfully easy on-demand image manipulation library with an HTTP based API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the image manipulation functionality of the Glide library. They implemented a new "flip" manipulator, allowing images to be flipped horizontally or vertically. The user also enhanced the library by adding support for all flip directions (horizontal, vertical, and both) and integrated WebP image format support. Finally, the user ensured the proper loading of manipulators within the system.
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