Ollie Read
Director at Ollieread
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOllie Read is a seasoned PHP and Laravel expert with 12 years of hands-on experience leading teams and shaping scalable web architectures. As Director and former Principal Architect, he’s driven refactors toward modular, DDD-aligned systems and led technical teams across startups and product companies. He contributes to core Laravel components—improving database, enum, and routing behaviors—and has authored useful community tools like a Laravel multi-auth package. Known for balancing pragmatic engineering with long-term maintainability, he also produces educational materials to help developers level up their PHP and Laravel skills. Based in Birmingham, he brings a rare blend of deep framework-level contributions and practical delivery experience across commercial and open-source projects.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Self Taught Web Developer
English
Stackoverflow
6,116reputation
925kreached
204answers
4questions
authentication
top-5%
php
top-5%
eloquent
top-5%
laravel
top-1%
global-variables
top-5%
Github Skills (28)
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
databases10
user-authentication10
authentication10
laravel10
enums10
php10
service-provider10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
console9
global-variables9
url-routing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ollieread/multiauth
Nov 2013 - Jul 2019
Laravel multi auth
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ollie primarily worked on the back-end of the Laravel multi-auth project, modifying and extending the `MultiauthServiceProvider` and related classes. Their contributions involved refactoring code to use the `Config` and `Session` classes, extending the `ServiceProvider` class, and adding support for password reminders. They also added a `get()` function to the `Guard` class, and commands for reminders.
laravel-multi-authmulti-authauthenticationlaravelauth
laravel/framework
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ollie made several contributions focused on enhancing the Laravel framework's database and routing functionalities. These changes include adding methods to the `ConnectionInterface`, improving enum support within Eloquent models, and allowing for nested array validation messages. Furthermore, they implemented support for additional `where*` methods to route groups and updated stubs for publishing. Finally, the user corrected typing for database column definitions.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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