By day I'm a Technical Lead at Nodifi, and a freelance developer, blogger, podcaster, and screencaster by night. You can find me as @michaeldyrynda on Twitter.

My first Open Source project ConFOMO, which I rebuilt with Matt Stauffer, and podcast the journey of rebuilding the app whilst learning VueJS on briefs.fm, was launched just in time for Laracon US 2016. You can check out more of my open source work, including my Laravel packages on GitHub.

As a web developer, I specialise in the Laravel Framework and love the freedom it gives me to build things quickly. My web development skills extend to frontend aspects of web development including JavaScript and Vue, LESS/Sass/CSS, as well as designing databases and building applications that can scale.

I write about web development and solving problems I come across day to day when I haven't been able to find good solution elsewhere.

I co-host the North Meets South Web Podcast with Jake Bennett, where we talk about lives as lead developers on opposite sides of the world. I also co-host the Laravel News podcast with the very same Jake Bennett.

If you need hands-free scheduled task monitoring for your Laravel applications, check out thenping.me!

The biggest way I give back to the Laravel community is by organising and running Laracon AU.