Nuno Maduro
Portugal
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Top SchoolNuno Maduro is a staff software engineer at Laravel and a prolific open-source maintainer with 11+ years building developer tools that shape the PHP ecosystem. He created and sustains widely adopted projects—Pest (the world’s second most used PHP testing framework), Larastan, PHP Insights, Termwind, Collision, Laravel Zero and the popular OpenAI PHP client—collectively downloaded millions of times. At Laravel he contributes to core components and products like Vapor, Octane and Telescope used by organizations such as The New York Times, Disney and Twitch, and he’s known for shipping pragmatic, well-typed improvements across framework internals. A frequent international speaker and content creator, his talks favor live coding and practical tooling, and he organizes community meetups including PHP Lisbon and Laravel France. His background includes building typed OSS API clients at Algolia and adding parallel testing, type declarations and architecture-focused tests across many repos, revealing a focus on quality and developer experience beyond feature work. Based in Portugal, Nuno’s mission is to keep maintaining his ecosystem-shaping projects while inventing tools that make PHP development more productive and enjoyable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master - MSc in Computer Engineering, Mobile Computing, Master - MSc in Computer Engineering, Mobile Computing at Polytechnic of Leiria
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
error-reporting10
testing10
command-line-interface10
authentication10
vapor10
queuing10
integrations10
format-string10
refactor10
phpunit10
code-analysis10
f10
repr10
passportjs10
db-schema10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/vapor-core
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The core service providers and runtime client for Laravel Vapor.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 releases, 18 reviews, 92 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nuno primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Laravel Vapor project. They focused on improving local environment variable usage, moving tests to GitHub Actions, and adapting the codebase to support newer Laravel versions. Further, they added features related to serving assets from the application's domain, including relevant middleware and configuration. The user also addressed queue options and fixed several issues with the queueing system.
phpruntimeproviderscore-servicevapor
laravel-zero/laravel-zero
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
A PHP framework for console artisans
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 796 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Nuno primarily focused on adding unit tests and integrating them into the project, demonstrating a focus on code quality and test-driven development. These tests covered critical parts of the application, verifying the functionality of console commands. The contributions also involved merging hotfix branches, which suggests involvement in maintaining the stability and release management of the project, and fixing issues related to include statements and autoloading.
micro-frameworkphp-frameworkconsole-applicationcomposershell
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