Samuel Levy
Managing Director at Determined Development Pty Ltd
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolSamuel Levy is a Managing Director and founder of Determined Development with 15 years building and maintaining web applications, specializing in PHP, Laravel, Livewire, Python, and MySQL. He combines hands-on engineering with architecture and workflow design to help growing teams scale codebases and deployment practices. A practical problem-solver, he has contributed to the core Laravel framework—adding validation rules, preventing model serialization recursion, and improving Eloquent inverse relations—demonstrating deep framework-level expertise. Based in Brisbane, he has a long track record of optimizing legacy systems and creating developer tooling from his time at CPAP.com and as a long-term freelance engineer. Samuel’s background includes open-source development (including an inbound call organizer he built) and server-side operations, so he blends product-minded thinking with ops-savvy delivery.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology; Software Engineering, Bachelor, Information Technology; Software Engineering at Griffith UniversityAtherton State High School
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
livewire10
laravel10
eloquent-orm10
php10
web-framework10
validations9
debug9
validation9
encryption9
phpunit8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 1 commit, 19 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the Laravel framework by implementing new validation rules and features, specifically the `prohibits` validation. They addressed issues related to circular references in model serialization, introducing a trait to prevent recursion. Additionally, the user worked on Eloquent inverse relations, adding features and tests to support and automatically guess inverse relationships, alongside fixing a bug related to calling `pluck()` on chaperoned relations and preventing infinite recursion.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
samlev/laravel
Sep 2015 - Nov 2023
A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Contributions:11 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 2 months
artisansphpframeworkphp-frameworkweb-artisans
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