Liam Hammett
Senior Tech Lead at Future
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLiam Hammett is a UK-based Senior Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building high-traffic, component-driven web platforms and refactoring legacy systems for performance and developer velocity. He currently leads engineering teams at Future, owning architecture, CI/CD orchestration, internationalisation and uptime for publisher sites that serve millions of pages per hour. Comfortable across PHP, Go and TypeScript stacks, he combines front-end polish (React/Vue, Sass/PostCSS, Tailwind) with distributed systems concerns—Kubernetes, Varnish/Fastly and a mix of datastores—to deliver measurable improvements in SEO, retention and deploy reliability. A hands-on manager and mentor, he drives developer experience and tooling adoption (observability, incident workflows) while contributing to product decisions. Notably, he has led multi-year refactors of flagship apps to multiply performance and enable larger teams to iterate faster.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Distinction (A*), IT Practitioners, Distinction (A*), IT Practitioners at Bodmin College
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Github Skills (14)
php10
laravel10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
testing9
twitter-bootstrap9
laravel-migration6
homestead6
automated-tests6
javascript6
vagrant6
virtualbox6
front-end-development6
plugin6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
imliam/laravel
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
A PHP framework for web artisans
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
artisansphpframeworkphp-frameworklaravel
imliam/laravel-throttle-simultaneous-requests
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Throttle the current user's requests based on how many requests are currently being executed.
Contributions:3 releases, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 2 months
throttle
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