whoami
Rob Watson - software developer, engineering lead.
cat interests.txt
PHP · Laravel · DDD · TypeScript · React · Rust
Thanks for stopping by - this is my little home on the internet. It's a short summary of who I am, what I do, and where I'm heading next.
$ specialty
Back-end engineer
PHP is home turf - plain, Laravel or Symfony - with a keen interest in domain-driven design. TypeScript and JavaScript for the glue between services.
$ role
Engineering leadership
Head of Engineering, leading a rewrite of a core product across React Native, React and Laravel. Junior → senior → tech lead → team lead since 2018.
$ origin-story
People first
Years in customer service and the family taxi business before coding commercially. Stakeholders and customers make sense to me, not just code.