Jason Lewis
Software Engineer at Codium Software
South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Lewis is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building polished Vue front-ends paired with robust Laravel APIs from his base in South Australia. He currently engineers production applications at Codium Software and has a strong history of delivering RESTful, versioned, and cached APIs—most notably for ABP Livestock—alongside simple CMS and AJAX-driven UX features. An active open-source contributor to the Laravel ecosystem, Jason has improved core packages like dingo/api and laravel/framework, adding test coverage, better exception handling, and cross-platform fixes that improve developer ergonomics. He blends attention to user-facing polish with deep back-end reliability, routinely refactoring for maintainability and measurable test improvements. Before software he worked in operational field roles, bringing a pragmatic, disciplined approach to complex engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Orbost Secondary College
English
Github Skills (21)
application-framework10
url-routing10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
app-framework10
laravel10
php10
api10
collections10
web-framework10
testing9
unit-testing9
template-engine9
data-manipulation9
c-string9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dingo/api
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
A RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 866 commits, 121 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason Lewis contributed to the development of a RESTful API package for the Laravel and Lumen frameworks. His work focused on implementing features such as a response facade, fixing spelling mistakes, and adding test coverage for the dispatcher. He refactored code for better exception handling and incorporated the capability for internal requests. These actions involved adding features, refactoring the internal structure and also included improvements for handling and logging exceptions.
laravellumen-frameworkrestrestful-api
laravel/framework
Jan 2013 - Mar 2021
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the Laravel framework, addressing various issues and implementing new features. Their work included allowing routes to override by order of declaration, fixing path issues for Windows environments, and adding functionality for view existence checks and collection merging. They also made changes to the core components, such as the `Str` and `Collection` classes. These contributions suggest a focus on improving routing, view handling, and collection manipulation within the framework.
laravelphpframework
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