Toby Evans
Technical Director at Techful Ltd
Northland, New Zealand
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolToby Evans is a seasoned Technical Director and full-stack engineer with over 15 years delivering web systems from architecture and server provisioning to PHP/Node.js back ends and responsive front ends. He co-founded Tankful, an early-stage startup focused on smart rainwater management, and currently leads technology at Techful Ltd, blending hands-on coding with team leadership. Toby bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders, turning complex requirements into clear, maintainable solutions and occasionally contributes to visual and UI design. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed edge-case bugs and improved validation in the widely used Laravel framework, showing attention to core reliability. Based in Northland, New Zealand, he pairs a pragmatic, product-focused mindset with a background in multimedia and 3D modelling, which informs his eye for usable interfaces.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Multimedia, 3D modelling/Animation, Diploma in Multimedia, 3D modelling/Animation at Natcol
Stackoverflow
1,451reputation
685kreached
34answers
28questions
Github Skills (17)
application-framework10
validations10
laravel-mix10
testing10
app-framework10
laravel10
validation10
php10
collections10
web-framework10
azure6
asp-net6
ado-net6
entity-framework6
cloud-hosting6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
May 2014 - Sep 2017
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 29 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Toby primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing validation and collection-related issues. Their work included adding support for array validation in the 'required' rule, fixing a bug in the `Collection->random()` method, and implementing a test case for it. Furthermore, the user addressed dimension validation of SVG files. These changes suggest a focus on improving core functionalities and fixing identified edge cases within the framework.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
tobz-nz/recaptcha
Aug 2017 - Nov 2024
Google Recaptcha for Laravel 5
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
recaptchaphpgoogle-recaptchalaravel-5laravel
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.