Speaking Engagements

I have presented technical presentations on a range of topics at a number of international conferences and user-groups.

Conference presentations and workshops

• Alexa, let's make a skill – ConFoo 2018, Montreal, Canada
• API Development with Laravel – ConFoo 2018, Montreal, Canada
• Introduction to Unit Testing – School of Tech, 2016, Newcastle, UK
• Laravel 5 Workshop – DIBI Conference 2014, Newcastle, UK
• Refactoring to Symfony Components – ConFoo 2014, Montreal, Canada
• Flexible payments with Stripe – ConFoo 2014, Montreal, Canada
• Introduction to iOS Development – ConFoo 2013, Montreal, Canada
• Team Development with Vagrant – ConFoo 2013, Montreal, Canada
• "Frameworks" closing keynote panel – PHP UK Conference 2013, London, UK
• Refactoring to Symfony Components – PHP UK Conference 2013, London, UK
• Evolution of a "big data" project – Dutch PHP Conference 2013, Amsterdam
• Real time voice call integration – ConFoo 2012, Montreal, Canada
• Dealing with continuous data processing – ConFoo 2012, Montreal, Canada
• Data at Scale – Cloud Connect 2012, Santa Clara, California, USA
• Abstracting functionality with centralised content – PHP North West Conference 2010, Manchester, UK

User group and un-conference presentations

• S3 Uploads with Cognito – PHP North East, April 2019, Newcastle, UK
• Test Driven APIs with Laravel – Laravel Leeds, February 2019, Leeds, UK
• API Development with Laravel – SheffieldPHP, September 2018, Sheffield, UK
• API Development with Laravel – LeedsPHP, February 2018, Leeds, UK
• Laravel Passport – PHP North East, September 2016, Newcastle, UK
• Tactician, the command bus – PHP North East, June 2016, Newcastle, UK
• API Documentation with Swagger – PHP North East, May 2014, Newcastle, UK
• Provision and deploy with Puppet – PHP North East, January 2014, Newcastle, UK
• Automated Acceptance Tests with Behat – PHP North East, November 2013, Newcastle, UK
• Symfony Console – PHP North East, October 2013, Newcastle, UK
• Powerful and flexible templates with twig – PHP North East, December 2012, Newcastle, UK
• Symfony components and friends – PHP North East, August 2012, Newcastle, UK
• Vagrant: Virtualise your development environment – SuperMondays, August 2012, Newcastle, UK
• An introduction to Twilio – SuperMondays, October 2011, Newcastle, UK
• Registry Design Pattern – PHP North East, August 2011, Newcastle, UK
• Jenkins Continuous Integration – SuperMondays, May 2011, Newcastle, UK
• Automated Deployment Mechanisms with PHP and Linux – PHP North East, March 2011, Newcastle, UK