Hi there 👋
I'm Jérôme Gamez, a platform and backend engineer with 20+ years of experience. I build elvah during the day and Open Source Software at night.
I'm a Jack of all trades with a soft spot for PHP, legacy software and, of course, Open Source software.
My hobby is my job and vice versa. My mission is to make the work of all developers (myself included) more productive and enjoyable. I have a special affinity for code quality, stability, and legacy software, and consider no code base to be unmaintainable 💪🏻.
My most prolific project is the (unofficial) Firebase Admin SDK for PHP and its related libraries, which are downloaded 500K+ times a month, but I also publish and maintain many more Open Source projects in the BESTE, kreait, and my personal GitHub organizations.
👷 What I'm currently working on
- beste/laravel-firebase - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK (4 days ago)
- beste/firebase-bundle - A Symfony Bundle for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK (1 week ago)
- beste/firebase-php - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP (2 weeks ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects. (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things (1 month ago)
- laravel-notification-channels/fcm - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notifications channel for Laravel (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer - Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer for ramsey/uuid (1 month ago)
- beste/firebase-tokens-php - A PHP library to work with Firebase tokens (1 month ago)
- beste/gcp-metadata-php - Get the metadata from a Google Cloud Platform environment. (1 month ago)
- beste/latlon-geohash-php - 🌍 Gustavo Niemeyer's geocoding system (1 month ago)
🌱 My latest projects
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things
- jeromegamez/valinor-troubleshooting -
- jeromegamez/pinboard-for-newsblur - Fixing pinboard.in keywords to be displayed correctly in NewsBlur
- jeromegamez/dotfiles - My dotfiles, managed with https://chezmoi.io.
- jeromegamez/issue-template-tests - A repo to test how issue templates look like before using them elsewhere
- jeromegamez/clock-poc - Proof of concept for the proposed clock PSR
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects.
- jeromegamez/php-library-template - This project has been replaced by https://github.com/jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-project
- jeromegamez/.github -
- jeromegamez/duration-php - Working with durations made easy
🔭 Latest releases I've contributed to
- googleapis/google-cloud-php (v0.324.0, 1 day ago) - Google Cloud Client Library for PHP
- coollabsio/coolify (v4.0.0-beta.469, 4 days ago) - An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
- beste/laravel-firebase (7.1.0, 5 days ago) - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- beste/firebase-bundle (6.1.0, 1 week ago) - A Symfony Bundle for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- beste/firebase-php (8.2.0, 2 weeks ago) - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP
- jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer (3.3.0, 1 month ago) - Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer for ramsey/uuid
- beste/latlon-geohash-php (1.5.0, 1 month ago) - 🌍 Gustavo Niemeyer's geocoding system
- laravel-notification-channels/fcm (6.0.0, 4 months ago) - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notifications channel for Laravel
- beste/in-memory-cache-php (1.4.0, 5 months ago) - A PSR-6 In-Memory cache that can be used as a fallback implementation and/or in tests.
- beste/json (1.7.0, 6 months ago) - A simple JSON helper to decode and encode JSON
🔨 My recent Pull Requests
- Add App Check replay protection with transitional contract on beste/firebase-php (3 weeks ago)
- Add support for
kreait/laravel-firebase7.x and PHP 8.5 on laravel-notification-channels/fcm (1 month ago) - Support Firebase SDK 8.x and PHP 8.3+ on beste/firebase-bundle (1 month ago)
- Add support for Symfony 8 on jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer (1 month ago)
- Isolate grpc tests on beste/firebase-php (1 month ago)
- Update link to the unofficial PHP Admin SDK on firebase/firebaseopensource.com (1 month ago)
- Add support for
firebase/php-jwt:^7.0.2on beste/firebase-php (2 months ago) - feat: Add
NegatedInstanceofWithParenthesesFixeron PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer (2 months ago) - Add
ParenthesizeNegatedInstanceofRectoron rectorphp/rector-src (2 months ago) - Fix
firebase-toolsinstallation on beste/firebase-php (3 months ago)
⭐ Recent Stars
- juanfont/headscale - An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (2 days ago)
- php-collective/dto - The easiest and fastest PHP DTO library in the world - quickly generate useful data transfer objects for your app (mutable/immutable) (2 days ago)
- google/recaptcha - PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse. (2 days ago)
- owenlejeune/ArrMatey - (4 days ago)
- bangsmackpow/colorcraft-studio - Coloring book page webapp with static frontend and node.js backend. (4 days ago)
- samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor - tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor (4 days ago)
- cirruslabs/orchard - Orchestrator for running Tart Virtual Machines on a cluster of Apple Silicon devices (5 days ago)
- simonw/rodney - CLI tool for interacting with the web (1 week ago)
- stonerl/Thaw - Menu bar manager for macOS 26 (1 week ago)
- bobeff/open-source-games - A list of open source games. (1 week ago)
❤️ These awesome people sponsor me (thank you!)
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💬 Feedback
If you use one of my projects, I'd love to hear from you. Let me know what you like and what needs being improved. And if you're a happy user of one or many of my projects, please consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor!
📫 How to reach me
- Mastodon: https://phpc.social/@jay
- Email: github@jerome.gamez.name