Tom Schlick
Lead Software Engineer at GrailPay
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Schlick is a Lead Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale Laravel/PHP systems, currently driving engineering at GrailPay from Cleveland, Ohio. He has led greenfield projects, migrations, and event-driven data sync architectures, and has a strong track record of upgrading legacy platforms, improving security posture, and instituting CI/CD and code quality automation across organizations. A frequent open-source contributor, Tom has made notable backend improvements to the Laravel core—adding queue job events, Eloquent date casting, and query builder enhancements—and created the @zonewatcher DNS Changelog tool. He combines hands-on coding with technical writing and test-driven development, having authored docs and unit tests for FuelPHP and other projects. Known for practical scalability work—designing solutions for write-heavy MySQL workloads—and for presenting at Laracon US 2017, he brings both operational depth and a continuous curiosity for new tech and development methods.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,298reputation
180kreached
39answers
3questions
codeigniter
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Github Skills (41)
unit-testing10
object-mapping10
query-builder10
eloquent10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
queuing10
fuelphp10
php10
orm10
f10
codeigniter10
fuel10
queue10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codestudiohq/laravel-totem
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Manage Your Laravel Schedule From A Web Dashboard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the Laravel-based project by refactoring existing code and implementing new features. They addressed an issue by checking for output file existence before processing it. The user also added functionality, enabling broadcasting and setting the channel, and enhanced the UI by including the command name in the dropdown list. Furthermore, they addressed bug fixes, such as removing phone number text from the Slack notification.
artisanschedulingcron-jobslaravel-schedulephp
fuel/core
May 2011 - Jun 2013
Fuel PHP Framework - The core of the Fuel v1 framework
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed unit tests and improved core functionality within the Fuel PHP Framework. Their work included creating unit tests for the `Str`, `Event`, `Lang`, and `Log` classes. They also implemented improvements in the `Uri` and `Arr` classes by allowing for full URLs and a new `assoc_to_keyval` method, respectively. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue related to IP detection and contributed to refactoring of the MongoDB database interactions.
phpframeworkfuelphpfuel-v1
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