Summary
Phillip Hartin is a product-minded software leader with 11 years of experience building products from lean MVPs to clinical platforms used at scale. Currently Product Manager at Laravel and co-founder/Technical Director at LittleFox Studio, he blends deep engineering chops with product strategy to ship practical, user-first solutions. He previously led product and engineering at Big Picture, growing the team from 4 to 50+ and partnering with organisations like Johnson & Johnson and NHS England while driving architecture, hiring, and culture. Comfortable switching between hands-on development, DevOps and executive decision-making, Phillip has a background in full-stack systems, SaaS infrastructure and behaviour‑focused machine learning research (PhD). Based in Coffs Harbour, Australia, he’s equally at home prototyping shoestring MVPs and steering large-scale, interoperable clinical platforms. A detail that surprises peers: he balances enterprise-grade delivery with an ongoing commitment to creative startups and developer tooling at Laravel.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science Machine Learning and Human Behaviour Change, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science Machine Learning and Human Behaviour Change at Ulster University