John Nickell

PHP/Symfony is home base. TypeScript across the stack. DDD, Clean Architecture, CQRS, event-driven — that's the daily vocabulary. 15 years of learning what not to do is probably the most useful part.

Claude Code workflows, event modeling at scale, and whether PHP 8.5 will finally make the haters quiet. Also: how to talk to a camera without sounding like I'm reading from a teleprompter.

The Thinking Engineer — a YouTube channel on software architecture in the age of AI. Also a CMS built the hard way, because you learn more from building one than from using one.

Talking architecture tradeoffs, DDD war stories, and AI-augmented development done right. Also open to roles — Senior/Staff/Architect. If your team ships code humans can still read, say hi.