Neal Erickson is a Principal Engineer based in York, PA with 14 years of experience building scalable web and SaaS platforms from the infrastructure up. He has led engineering teams and architecture at companies from fintech (BankMobile) to field-service SaaS (Schedule Engine), where he shepherded a microservices platform handling tens of millions of API requests per day. A pragmatic polyglot, Neal’s deep systems and backend expertise spans PHP, MySQL/Postgres, Linux/FreeBSD, and cloud-native CI/CD/IaC practices, and he’s contributed backend and database improvements to the popular li3 PHP framework. He also founded Heedworks to deliver custom solutions across e-commerce and manufacturing, combining hands-on development with strategic product thinking. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integration and performance challenges into maintainable, testable systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
li₃ is the fast, flexible and most RAD development framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:6 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Neal primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Lithium framework. Their contributions include implementing support for null constraints in database relationships, ensuring proper type casting for insert/update queries, and casting conditions with table aliases. They also added a test case for type casting arrays of subobjects. Moreover, the user added timezone support to the PostgreSQL adapter.
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