RobertĀ Allport
Lead Software Developer at StairBox
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Allport is a Lead Software Developer with a decade of experience building and maintaining large-scale bespoke web and CRM systems, currently responsible for all software at StairBox after progressing from a contract senior developer role. He specialises in PHP/Laravel and Vue, has led migrations to Google Cloud and introduced a ~900-test suite to ensure safe upgrades and continuous business operations. As founder of F9 Web Ltd he has a strong commercial focusādelivering conversion-optimised sites and bespoke systems (CRM, HR, stock management) that solve real business problems. Comfortable running day-to-day production, triaging bugs and shaping feature roadmaps, he brings hands-on leadership across the full stack and a pragmatic approach shaped by serving mission-critical workflows for 100+ users. An early career background in business analysis and HND computing gives him a blend of technical depth and process-aware thinking often missing in pure engineers.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
HND Computing, HND Computing at Stoke-on-Trent CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Geography with Business Studies, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geography with Business Studies at University of Staffordshire
Github Skills (195)
jquery-datatables10
moodle10
geo-search10
php-fpm10
fuzzy10
backup10
docker-container10
google-map10
cart10
fuzzy-search10
javascript10
sitemap-xml10
permission10
wordpress10
laravel-queue10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
f9webltd/invisible-recaptcha
Jun 2024 - Mar 2026
An invisible reCAPTCHA package for Laravel, Lumen, CI or native PHP.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
invisible-recaptchalaravelnativephp
f9webltd/laravel-deletable
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
:space_invader: Gracefully restrict deletion of Laravel Eloquent models
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 7 months
laravel-eloquenteloquentlaravel-softdeletes-traitlaravel-softdeleteeloquent-models
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