Solutions Engineer at Laravel. CTO/Founder at Metacomet Technologies. I sell Laravel Cloud and help teams migrate their workloads to Private Cloud — a platform built specifically for the framework.
Before Laravel, I spent nearly a decade in financial services building cloud-native platforms, event-driven systems, and compliance-aware deployment pipelines at Empower and MassMutual. The kind of environments where your PR needs a sign-off from Legal before it touches staging.
I changed my major from Finance to Information Systems because a few Excel formulas made me think software engineering would be easy. I was wrong about that — but I kept going.
I live with ADHD, I've visited 34 national parks, and I'm a better starter than I am a finisher. I write about all of it at dgarbs51.com.