👋 Senior Systems Engineer & PHP Internals Developer passionate about low-level programming and performance optimization. I build PHP extensions, explore PHP internals, and dive deep into systems programming with C, Rust, and Zig. When I'm not optimizing at the byte level, I architect scalable backend solutions ⚡

🚀 Laravel Core Contributor - Merged bugfix improving framework reliability
🌟 Open Source Maintainer - 7 active projects with 20+ stars combined
🐘 PHP Internals Explorer - Deep diving into Zend engine and preparing core contributions
🔧 Low-Level Programming - Building PHP extensions with C, Rust, and Zig
📦 Docker Expert - Created development environments used by PHP community

Senior Systems Engineer & PHP Internals Developer specializing in Performance Optimization, PHP Extensions & Low-Level Programming

🔧 PHP Extension Development - Building high-performance extensions that bridge PHP with systems programming
⚡ Performance Engineering - Optimizing at the language and system level for maximum efficiency
🐘 PHP Internals Research - Studying the Zend engine architecture and preparing for core contributions
🦀 Systems Programming - Leveraging C, Rust, and Zig for performance-critical components
🏗️ Backend Architecture - Designing scalable systems with deep understanding of underlying performance

• 🚀 Laravel Framework - Core framework contributor
• [12.x] ScheduledTaskFailed not dispatched on scheduled forground task fails

• 🐘 PHP Dev Box - Containerized PHP development environment
• 🐳 PHP Dev Box Image - Pre-built Docker images for PHP core development
• 🎓 Cventure - Interactive C programming learning platform
• 🍎 MacDotfile - Automated macOS developer environment setup
• 📄 LaTeX-CV-Docker-Image - Dockerized LaTeX CV builder
• 📊 CSVHelper - High-performance PHP CSV processing library

• 🏗️ Microservices Migration - Successfully decomposed monoliths achieving 300% scalability improvement
• ⚡ API Optimization - Reduced response times by 40% through strategic caching and query optimization
• ☁️ Cloud Migration - Led AWS migration reducing infrastructure costs while improving reliability

• 👥 Team Leadership - Mentored junior developers and established coding standards
• 🔧 Developer Experience - Created development tools used across multiple teams
• 📈 Process Improvement - Implemented CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time by 60%

When I'm not architecting systems or optimizing databases:

• 🏍️ Motorcycle Adventures - Exploring roads less traveled (and debugging issues less documented)
• 🔍 Tech Explorer - Always experimenting with the latest tools and frameworks
• ☕ Coffee Connoisseur - Firm believer that good code requires great coffee

• ⚡ Low-Level Programming - Diving deep into systems programming with C, Zig, and Rust
• 🔧 PHP Extensions & Packages - Building high-performance PHP extensions and reusable packages
• 🦀 Rust & Zig - Exploring modern systems languages for performance-critical components
• 🐘 PHP Internals - Contributing to PHP core and understanding the Zend engine
• 📚 Technical Writing - Sharing knowledge through documentation and tutorials

Always open to discussing exciting projects, architecture challenges, or just geeking out about tech!

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad." - Cory House