Reece May
Freelance Software Engineer
South Africa, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarReece May is a freelance full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building Laravel and JavaScript-driven web applications across fullstack and Jamstack architectures. Based in South Africa and the UK, he combines practical back-end expertise with test automation discipline, having contributed meaningful fixes and feature work to notable Laravel projects like MailEclipse and Spatie's laravel-activitylog. He focuses on improving real-world developer workflows—introducing blade-compatible rendering, Mockery testing support, and JSON attribute filtering with deep-level test coverage. Comfortable navigating both maintenance and feature development, Reece brings a pragmatic, quality-first approach to shipping reliable systems. His GitHub presence reflects steady, hands-on contributions that benefit other developers and libraries in the Laravel ecosystem. He also jokes that he “Exists in 3D™,” hinting at a personable, creative streak behind his technical work.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (22)
json10
laravel-mix10
testing10
audit10
laravel10
php10
auditing10
logger9
template-engine9
logfile9
templating-engine9
templating9
logging9
mailing8
e-mail8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Qoraiche/laravel-mail-editor
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
MailEclipse :zap: Laravel Mail Editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 19 reviews, 188 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Reece primarily focused on enhancing the Laravel mail editor project. Their contributions included fixing bugs, such as resolving conflicts and type-hint errors. They also introduced Mockery support for testing and made changes to the template rendering to be blade-compatible. Their work centered around improving the functionality and stability of the application's core mail processing logic.
laravel-maillaravellaravel-packagemaillaravel-mailable
spatie/laravel-activitylog
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Log activity inside your Laravel app
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Reece primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and testing of the Laravel activity log package. They added new features for filtering JSON attribute subkeys within the logging system. They implemented comprehensive tests for the new functionality, ensuring the correct logging of JSON attribute changes, including those at deeper levels. The user also addressed style issues and applied style fixes to adhere to coding standards.
laravelphpauditmonitoring
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