Phil spent years developing websites with a bunch of languages and frameworks such as PHP, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Python and EmberJS to name but a few. Over the years he has ended up writing handfuls of APIs and worked implementing even more. This gave him considerable perspective on the good, the bad and the ugly of API development.

Being a core-contributor to CodeIgniter, FuelPHP and PyroCMS has given him some insight on framework-interoperability - leading him to join the PHP-FIG, which strives to make lives easier for developers through standards and interfaces.

Now he uses this extensive and random experience to try to improve the quality of code in the PHP community, one package, book, framework, or API at a time.