Summary
Richard Styles is a Senior Full-Stack Developer based in Northwich, England, with a decade of experience building production web applications primarily with PHP and Laravel. He specialises in Laravel, Livewire, and Filament, bringing pragmatic, maintainable solutions from the database to interactive UIs. Currently at Wonde, he has held senior PHP roles across fast-moving companies including UKFast and Adzooma, and previously progressed from IT support to management in hospitality tech operations. Richard combines hands-on coding with operational awareness gained from years running IT for a multi-site business, which helps him balance feature velocity with reliability. He is comfortable shipping end-to-end systems and mentoring teams on best practices around Laravel ecosystems. Outside core development, his background in electronics and computing gives him a practical, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, Electronics, Computing, Physics, General Studies, A Level, Electronics, Computing, Physics, General Studies at Sir John Deans College
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Lower Second, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Lower Second at The Manchester Metropolitan University