“Every project goes better with James.”

Who am I?

Hi there! I'm James Titcumb. I've been a PHP developer since 2002. Here's some current facts about me:

• I am a freelance consultant developer under the Roave team banner, where I work with an amazing team of developers.
• I am a Zend Certified PHP Engineer.
• I speak at user groups and conferences; see all the talks I'm doing and have done.
• I am a Zend Framework and Expressive maintainer on the Community Review team.
• I love contributing to open source software, such as Zend Framework, Zend Expressive, Doctrine and more.
• I help maintain Roave's open source libraries, such as Better Reflection, Don't, Backward Compatibility Check, and more.
• I am the lead maintainer for the Browser Capabilities Project.
• I live in East Yorkshire, UK and I'm married, with 2 children.

In the past...

• I founded and ran the PHP South Coast conference for three years.
• I founded and ran the PHP Hampshire PHP user group for six years.
• I was the Community Corner columnist for php[architect] magazine from July 2017 to December 2018.
• I have written three articles for php[architect] magazine (Apr 2015, Nov 2015, Jan 2017)
• I was the technical editor for RabbitMQ in Depth by Gavin M. Roy, a book from Manning Publications.
• I was a technical editor for I'm British So I Know How to Queue, a RabbitMQ book by Stuart Grimshaw.

Hire me!

As a professional PHP consultant with many years of experience, I can offer many consultancy services to clients, including:

• Mentoring and training
• Consultancy and advice
• Software and application development
• Refactoring expertise and consulting
• Project planning and scoping
• Code reviews and quality

Get in touch...

You can get in touch with me the following ways:

• Twitter: @asgrim
• GitHub: github.com/asgrim
• LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/jamestitcumb
• IRC (freenode): asgrim