I'm James Brooks. Working at Laravel, enabling enterprise.

I’m an engineer who goes by @jbrooksuk on the internet.

I work at Laravel, where I previously worked on Laravel Forge and Envoyer. I’m now Head of Enterprise Enablement, overseeing the roadmap and project management of our enterprise features and customers. You‘ll sometimes see me contributing to the docs, framework and packages.

I live in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, United Kingdom with my wife, two daughters and cockerspaniel.

I organise PHP Stoke, a quarterly meet-up in Stoke-on-Trent.

I’m also the host of Happy Dev, a podcast that talks about mental health in the software development industry. Advocating for mental health and suicide awareness are two of my deepest passions.