Steve Mcdougall
Technical Director at Lila Fuches Limited
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)
api-monitoring10
micro-framework10
api10
dataobject10
laravel-package10
php10
command-line10
api-client10
rest-api10
frappe-charts10
http-response10
oop10
devops10
api-requests10
paas10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JustSteveKing/http-slim
May 2020 - Aug 2021
A slim psr compliant http client to provide better interoperability
Contributions:7 releases, 36 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
http-clientphppsr-7psr-17psr-18
JustSteveKing/laravel-stoplight-elements
May 2021 - Feb 2022
A simple API documentation package for Laravel using OpenAPI and Stoplight Elements
Contributions:8 releases, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
laravelopenapi
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