Simon Hamp
Co-Founder at Laradevs
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Hamp is a software engineer and founder with over 20 years in the industry and 11 years of concentrated hands-on experience building scalable web applications and developer platforms. As creator of NativePHP and co-founder of Bifrost, he enables PHP developers to build native and cross-platform apps without leaving the Laravel ecosystem. He acquired and grew Laradevs, driving nearly tenfold developer sign-ups and tripling site traffic since 2023, showing a knack for product-led growth as well as engineering. His open-source contributions to high-profile Laravel projects (including envoys and the framework itself) demonstrate deep expertise in core PHP tooling, testing improvements, and runtime behavior. Based in Las Palmas, he blends technical leadership with community-building and a reputation for sharing knowledge to help other developers level up.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, GCSE at Royal Grammar School Worcester
English
Stackoverflow
3,230reputation
234kreached
30answers
9questions
php
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
task-management10
function-call10
compile-time10
compilation10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
laravel10
callback10
php10
compile10
compiler10
ssh10
application-framework9
app-framework9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Sep 2019 - May 2022
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to improving the Laravel framework's core functionalities and testing infrastructure. They added new methods to the Eloquent Builder, improved event handling with `EventFake::assertListening()`, and fixed assertions for string-based observer listeners. Furthermore, the user added a Blade `@use` directive. The user's work focused on enhancing the framework's capabilities and improving its testing.
laravelphpframework
laravel/envoy
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Elegant SSH tasks for PHP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to Envoy's core functionality by adding support for success and exit code handling. They implemented features for success callbacks and integrated exit code retrieval within the task execution. Further contributions included compiler enhancements, adding matchers, and adjusting existing code to accommodate new features. The user made StyleCI fixes for code formatting.
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