Steve Mcdougall
Technical Director at php[architect]
Treherbert, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Mcdougall is a Technical Director and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms across startups, agencies, and nonprofits from Treherbert, Wales. He blends hands-on engineering, people leadership and technical strategy—having held CTO/Head of Development roles, managed engineering teams, and served as a Core Committee member of PHP-FIG. A prolific technical writer and advocate, he contributes to php[architect], Laravel News, and has a background in developer advocacy and community building (founder of PHP South Wales). His early career in the military and hands-on systems roles gave him deep operational discipline and a practical security-first approach to cloud and compliance work. Steve is notable for switching fluidly between product leadership and code, and for creating developer-focused learning resources and content beyond typical managerial duties.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering Maintenance and Installation Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician, Mechanical Engineering Maintenance and Installation Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician at HM Forces Apprenticeship Scheme11 x GCSE's, 11 x GCSE's at Test Valley School
English, German, Norwegian
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
envoyer10
tencent10
api-monitoring10
micro-framework10
api10
application-framework10
saas10
inheritance10
laravel-package10
php10
complexity10
api-client10
terraform10
expressive10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JustSteveKing/SMS
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
An SMS Sender for the TextLocal API
Contributions:3 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 5 months
apitextlocalsmssendersms-sender
JustSteveKing/laravel-redoc
May 2021 - Apr 2022
A simple API documentation package for Laravel using OpenAPI and Redoc
Contributions:6 releases, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
apiredocapi-documentationsimple-apilaravel
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