Ryan Chandler
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud) at Laravel
Wickford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Chandler is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years' experience building full-stack and cloud-native features, currently focused on cloud services at Laravel. He has a strong Laravel ecosystem pedigree—contributing to core framework features, popular packages like Filament and Termwind, and front-end tooling such as Alpine.js—demonstrating fluency across PHP, Livewire, Tailwind and JS. Ryan has shipped both product and platform work, from founding a small agency to shaping the next-generation of Laravel Forge and improving reliability and migration paths for core services. His contributions often emphasize usability and maintainability, e.g., simplifying Blade UI components, improving datepicker initialization, and adding robust tests and docs. Comfortable working end-to-end, he blends pragmatic backend design with thoughtful front-end polish and developer experience improvements. Based in Wickford, UK, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a track record of meaningful open-source impact in widely used Laravel projects.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
9 GCSEs A*-C including Maths and English, 9 GCSEs A*-C including Maths and English at Woodlands SchoolA-Level Physics Chemistry and Maths, A-Level Physics Chemistry and Maths at The Billericay School
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Github Skills (42)
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url-routing10
javascript10
strings10
console10
laravel-mix10
testing10
text-manipulation10
component-development10
css10
app-framework10
configuration-management10
livewire10
integer-arithmetic10
laravel10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laravel-frontend-presets/tall
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
A TALL (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel and Livewire) Preset for Laravel
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 29 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on updating and fixing the authentication components of the Laravel application. They modified Livewire components, replaced Route::livewire with Route::get, and updated model namespaces. Additionally, they made code changes related to the new FQN route registration in Laravel 8 and updated tests for the new Laravel version and factories. Furthermore, the user moved the `app.js` script to the `<head>` section and fixed validation and redirection issues within the login and register components.
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filamentphp/filament
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
A collection of beautiful full-stack components for Laravel. The perfect starting point for your next app. Using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 420 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan made significant contributions to the FilamentPHP framework, implementing new features such as a new method for rich editor toolbar buttons, commands for creating form fields, and integrating alias commands for various make commands. They also addressed bugs related to namespacing, view paths, and file locations within the framework's structure, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture. Moreover, the user improved the text columns by implementing the default value feature.
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