Jess Archer
Engineering Manager, Head Of Nightwatch
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarJess Archer is an engineering manager and long-time Laravel core contributor based in Brisbane with over a decade of experience building high‑impact web systems—from POS, WMS and anti‑fraud banking systems to hundreds of websites and bespoke CRMs. As Head of Nightwatch at Laravel and a former Engineering Team Lead, she blends hands‑on back‑end expertise (notably Eloquent ORM improvements) with full‑stack modernization work around Vite, Inertia and Jetstream. Known for meticulous, logical problem solving and a user‑centric approach, she ships pragmatic, well-tested solutions and has a history of simplifying complex build and validation workflows across the Laravel ecosystem. Outside core development she co-founded GiftyDuck, freelances for diverse clients, and co-hosts the BaseCode podcast—showing a knack for translating deep technical detail into accessible guidance.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (41)
javascript10
object-mapping10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
authentication10
typescript10
user-authentication10
vite10
laravel10
type-definition10
validation-rules10
inertiajs10
eloquent-orm10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/vite-plugin
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Laravel plugin for Vite.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 111 commits, 60 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily contributed to the development of the Laravel Vite plugin, a tool for integrating Vite, a modern front-end build tool, with the Laravel PHP framework. Their contributions included enhancing the plugin's functionality to support string entrypoints, injecting the ASSET_URL for proper asset paths, and adding SSR support. They also improved configuration options, added tests, and implemented features for running the plugin inside a Sail container.
laravelvitelaravel-plugin
laravel/breeze
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Minimal Laravel authentication scaffolding with Blade, Vue, or React + Tailwind.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 23 commits, 35 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily focused on updating and modernizing the authentication scaffolding for the Laravel Breeze project. Their commits involved transitioning Inertia Vue stubs to the `<script setup>` syntax, improving Vite compatibility, and migrating to Inertia v1. They also implemented new features such as a profile page. These changes involved modifying frontend components and backend configurations, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and the technologies involved.
reacttailwindcsstailwind-reactbladetailwind
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