Hey, I'm Michael!

Principal Engineer by day, blogger, podcaster, and open source enthusiast by night. I build things with Laravel, PHP, and modern web technologies.

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Adelaide, AU

About Me

Building things that matter

I'm a Principal Engineer at LMG Asset Finance, where I help build robust financial systems with Laravel and PHP.

When I'm not working, you'll find me contributing to open source, co-hosting podcasts like North Meets South, and organising Laracon AU.

What I Do

My Digital Playground

From podcasting to organizing conferences, here are the projects I'm most passionate about

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Podcasting

Co-host of North Meets South Web Podcast with Jake Bennett. We chat about life as lead developers on opposite sides of the world. Also co-host the Laravel News podcast.

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Community

The biggest way I give back to the Laravel community is by organizing and running Laracon AU. Bringing together hundreds of Laravel developers from around Australia and beyond for two days of learning, networking, and fun.

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Open Source

I've contributed numerous Laravel packages and PHP tools to the community. From GitHub to packagist, I believe in giving back to the ecosystem that has given me so much. Check out my work and feel free to contribute!

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June 24th, 2025 5 min

Protecting Laravel Cloud endpoints

If you've seen a whole heap of invalid 4xx-level requests hit your website inside of Nightwatch (and subsequently consume all your events), here's one approach to stop those requests hitting your app entirely.

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September 22nd, 2021 6 min

Working with fixture data in your tests

Fixture data is a great way to ensure your application code can handle known data structures, but it can be a little tedious to work with. Lets look at one approach to streamlining the process.

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September 11th, 2021 8 min

Monitoring Laravel Vapor metrics with Grafana Cloud

If, like me, you've ever had to monitor metrics for your Laravel Vapor application you'll find that the basic options are either tedious, or just don't work. Enter Grafana (Cloud)

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