Marty Friedel is a seasoned web development director with over two decades of professional web experience and 11 years in leadership, currently guiding custom web and application projects at Mity Digital. He blends deep PHP/Laravel expertise with modern front-end tools like Vue, Tailwind, Livewire and Inertia, and designs resilient MySQL-backed systems with strong accessibility and usability focus. Marty is an active open-source contributor to Statamic CMS, where he has shipped both backend features and UI improvements including dark mode and form handling enhancements. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer & Information Science and Media Arts, taught and led academic projects, and brings a rare combination of studio-grade multimedia sensibility and pragmatic engineering. Based in Adelaide, he’s also a landscape photographer and group fitness instructor, reflecting a creative, disciplined approach to problem solving and public speaking (Laracon AU 2023).
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Media Arts, Interactive Multimedia, Web Development, Bachelor of Media Arts, Interactive Multimedia, Web Development at University of South Australia
Contributions:3 commits, 36 PRs, 69 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Marty contributed to various aspects of the Statamic CMS, including form submissions, template tags, and UI improvements. They added new features like submission-specific form redirects and an external URL modifier. The user also addressed bugs related to focus errors and improved the user interface with dark mode support and styling adjustments. These contributions demonstrate a focus on both backend functionality and frontend presentation.
Contributions:22 releases, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 3 months
statamictwo-factor-authentication
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