Steve Grunwell
Bio: Steve Grunwell is a Staff Software Engineer at Mailchimp, building tools to empower small businesses to better reach their customers. With a decade and a half of web application development experience, he’s passionate about teaching and contributing back to the development community through speaking, blogging, and open-source work.
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8 Rules for Better Applications
at PHP TEK 2025 on 22 May 2025
Domain Driven PHP
at PHP TEK 2025 on 22 May 2025
Event Sourcing Teardown: Understanding the Pattern
at PHP TEK 2025 on 22 May 2025
In defense of "monolithic microservices"
at PHP TEK 2025 on 22 May 2025
Systemic PHP typing: best practices
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
The Art of API Design
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Admin, Product and Beyond with FilamentPHP
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Measuring PHP using Metrics
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Is This Test Worth It? Evaluating the Real Value of Testing
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Event Sauce: Using Event Sourcing For Better Applications
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Intro to Automated Refactoring with RectorPHP
at PHP TEK 2025 on 21 May 2025
Let Go of Ownership
at PHP TEK 2025 on 20 May 2025
Rise of the Machines - an intro to Machine Learning
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 28 Oct 2024
Diagram Like a Principal Engineer
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 28 Oct 2024
How to tame a 🦄
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 26 Oct 2024
The ABCs and 123s of HTTP APIs
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 26 Oct 2024
Living in a Post-Test World
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 26 Oct 2024
Intersectiona11y: Making tech work for everyone
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 25 Oct 2024
What’s new in PHP 9.0: See the future and discover the past in PHP RFCs
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 25 Oct 2024
Writing a PHP extension in Rust, or What is a PHP extension?
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 25 Oct 2024
Arrays, Iterators, and IteratorAggregates, oh my!
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 25 Oct 2024
A Hater's Guide To Programming With LLM's
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 24 Oct 2024
SQL Database Design For Developers
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 24 Oct 2024
Internationalization and Localization With PHP
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 24 Oct 2024
Downgrade to Upgrade and Other Composer Tricks
at CascadiaPHP 2024 on 24 Oct 2024
Community, PHP and us: Growing up
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
PHP Attributes: Let's get Meta
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
Modern SQL
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
The Business of Bisecting
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
Saving Open Source
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
SDK Tuning: From Toolkit to Cool-kit
at php[tek] 2024 on 25 Apr 2024
Never* use arrays
at php[tek] 2024 on 24 Apr 2024
The 2024 State of PHP
at php[tek] 2024 on 24 Apr 2024
Embracing Enums
at php[tek] 2024 on 24 Apr 2024
Better Debugging With Xdebug
at php[tek] 2024 on 24 Apr 2024
Finding Your Perfect Place in Tech
at php[tek] 2024 on 24 Apr 2024
Writing PHP Extensions
at php[tek] 2024 on 23 Apr 2024
Composer Guide to Supply Chain Security
at php[tek] 2024 on 23 Apr 2024
Shell Scripting for PHP Developers
at php[tek] 2024 on 23 Apr 2024
Packaging the Monolith
at php[tek] 2024 on 23 Apr 2024
How to Embrace Change with Curiosity, Creativity, and Compassion
at php[tek] 2024 on 23 Apr 2024
Why I left the tech world
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 4 Nov 2023
CVE 101: The Unfolding Of A Zero Day Attack
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 4 Nov 2023
Downgrade to Upgrade and Other Composer Tricks
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 4 Nov 2023
A Full-Stack Developer's Guide to DevOps
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 4 Nov 2023
Internationalization & Localization With PHP
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 3 Nov 2023
Tips to Prevent Burnout in a Toxic Agile Environment
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 3 Nov 2023
Finding Harmony in Distributed Systems: Choreography vs Orchestration in Software Development
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 3 Nov 2023
Living the Best Life on a Legacy Project
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 3 Nov 2023
Let Go of Ownership
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2023 on 3 Nov 2023
Making things Happen with Make
at php[tek] 2023 on 18 May 2023
Put A UUID On It!
at php[tek] 2023 on 18 May 2023
Rust For PHP Developers
at php[tek] 2023 on 18 May 2023
MySQL Indexes -- How They Really Work
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
HAL It Works
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Setting up GitHub Actions for your PHP projects
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Funding PHP
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Webhooks: Lessons (Un)learned
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Introducing: Pest
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Domain-driven Design in PHP Workshop
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
I'm Not Supposed to Be Here
at php[tek] 2023 on 17 May 2023
Data Privacy in Software Development
at php[tek] 2023 on 16 May 2023
The Many Layers of OAuth
at php[tek] 2023 on 16 May 2023
Let Go of Ownership
at php[tek] 2023 on 16 May 2023
Managing Modern Infrastructure with Ansible
at php[world] 2019 on 24 Oct 2019
Zombie Hunt: Find and Remove Dead Code and Dependencies
at php[world] 2019 on 24 Oct 2019
Enforcing Coding Standards with PHP_CodeSniffer
at php[world] 2019 on 24 Oct 2019
Developing a Culture of Mentorship
at php[world] 2019 on 24 Oct 2019
WordPress Under Pressure: Tales of Sites at Scale
at php[world] 2019 on 24 Oct 2019
Asynchronous Awesome - Task Management in PHP
at php[world] 2019 on 23 Oct 2019
RTFM
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 4 May 2019
Divide and Conquer - Your Business Code and your Framework
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 4 May 2019
Adding Serverless to a Legacy / Monolithic PHP App
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 4 May 2019
When did you stop speaking up?
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 3 May 2019
Performance optimi$ation: how do I go about it?
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 3 May 2019
Frontend Performance and You: A Beginner's Guide
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 3 May 2019
Become an Accessibility BFF with your new friend Pa11y!
at Longhorn PHP Conference 2019 on 3 May 2019
Free Software: It's not about the license
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 9 Mar 2019
Load Testing Your App
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 9 Mar 2019
Code Reviews: That's a Great Idea!
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 9 Mar 2019
Mental Health and You
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 9 Mar 2019
Testing Business Critical Features With Behat
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 9 Mar 2019
Rising the Tide
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 8 Mar 2019
The Dark Corners of the SPL
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 8 Mar 2019
Async Middleware
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 8 Mar 2019
RTFM
at Midwest PHP 2019 on 8 Mar 2019
Developers in the Mist
at php[world] 2018 on 15 Nov 2018
Birds of a Feather: Ethics in Software Development
at php[world] 2018 on 15 Nov 2018
Birds of a Feather: CI & Automated Testing
at php[world] 2018 on 15 Nov 2018
Apache httpd: Not your Daddy's Web Server
at php[world] 2018 on 15 Nov 2018
Welcome to the PHP Community
at php[world] 2018 on 14 Nov 2018
The Role of an Architect
at php[world] 2018 on 14 Nov 2018
Birds of a Feather: New to php[world]?
at php[world] 2018 on 14 Nov 2018
The New Revolution
at WavePHP 2018 on 22 Sep 2018
Where's The BeEF?
at WavePHP 2018 on 21 Sep 2018
Getting Kids Involved in Programming
at WavePHP 2018 on 21 Sep 2018
Accessibility for Everyone
at WavePHP 2018 on 20 Sep 2018
Building a CI/CD pipeline for PHP applications
at WavePHP 2018 on 20 Sep 2018
Let’s Build a ChatBot!
at WavePHP 2018 on 20 Sep 2018
Double Loop: TDD & BDD Done Right
at WavePHP 2018 on 20 Sep 2018
Serverless PHP applications
at Cascadia PHP on 16 Sep 2018
The Monster on the Project
at Cascadia PHP on 16 Sep 2018
Ally Oops
at Cascadia PHP on 15 Sep 2018
Only Take What You Need GraphQl in PHP
at Cascadia PHP on 15 Sep 2018
PHP: People Helping People
at Cascadia PHP on 15 Sep 2018
Code is Not Neutral: Ethics for Developers
at Cascadia PHP on 15 Sep 2018
Building to spec - the OpenAPI Spec and PHP
at Cascadia PHP on 15 Sep 2018
Is Your Chair Killing You? How To Reverse The Negative Effects Of The Sitting Disease
at Cascadia PHP on 14 Sep 2018
Lost in the Lobby
at Cascadia PHP on 14 Sep 2018
Building Secure Applications: Threat Modeling for Dummies
at Cascadia PHP on 14 Sep 2018
(Ab)using process control for powerful CLI applications
at Cascadia PHP on 14 Sep 2018
The Science of Learning
at Cascadia PHP on 14 Sep 2018
Building World Class Developer Organizations
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
Philosophy in Code: I Kant Even
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
The Myth of the Career Ladder
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
Hey Boss, Event Sourcing Could Fix That!
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
Maintaining Homestead
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
Mental health in tech: Storytime
at Southeast PHP on 17 Aug 2018
Doctrine for Beginners
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
From support to engineering to management: What you take with you, what you leave behind
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
How PHP Ticks
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
Assemble Your Code in Stages: Leveling Up With Pipelines
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
Apple, Butter, Darmok: A communications primer for developers
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
Double Loop: TDD & BDD Done Right
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
Overcoming Your Fear of Failure
at Southeast PHP on 16 Aug 2018
I Community and So Can You
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
Welcome to the Internet - We have packets!
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
SOLID In Practice
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
Managing Technical Debt
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
In 2018, PHPUnit isn't enough -- complementary tools for test-centric workflows
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
20k Lines Under the C: A Guide to the PHP Startup Process and Hooking Absolutely Everything
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
Database Theory and Modeling: A Crash Course
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 28 Jul 2018
Groupies, Roadies, Rockstars: The roles we play in opensource
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 27 Jul 2018
Generators: All About the Yield
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 27 Jul 2018
Understanding Docker for Development
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 27 Jul 2018
Dependency Injection For Mere Humans
at PHPDetroit Conference 2018 on 27 Jul 2018
Machine Ethics and Emerging Technologies
at php[tek] 2018 on 1 Jun 2018
Fire up your PHP App Performance with Blackfire.io
at php[tek] 2018 on 1 Jun 2018
Composer Best Practices 2018
at php[tek] 2018 on 1 Jun 2018
Gutenberg Comes to WordPress
at php[tek] 2018 on 1 Jun 2018
Managing Dependencies Is More Than "Composer Update"
at php[tek] 2018 on 31 May 2018
How Will We Test All the Things?!
at php[tek] 2018 on 31 May 2018
I Community and So Can You
at php[tek] 2018 on 31 May 2018
Say Yes to Premature Optimizations
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
Sharing Data in a Multitenant Architecture
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
2FA, U2F, OOB, and Other Terrifying Security Acronyms
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
Machine Learning Circa Minority Report
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
The Future is Terrifying and I Can Hardly Wait For It
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
Advanced MySQL Query Optimization
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
Throwing Laravel Into your Legacy App™
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
Simple Continuous Deployment: Jenkins and Laravel
at php[world] 2017 on 20 Nov 2017
You Don't Node.js (or, How JavaScript Actually Works)
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Put an end to regression with Codeception Testing
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Discovering Dark Knowledge in the Social Web
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Pulling up Your Legacy App by its Bootstraps!
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Effective Code Review: What to Say & How To Say It
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Rise of the Nodebots
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Learning Machine Learning
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Static in the Front, Dynamic in the Back!
at Lone Star PHP 2017 on 30 Apr 2017
Tech for the People: Using our Superpowers for Good
at php[world] 2016 on 18 Nov 2016
WordPress as a 12 Factor APP
at php[world] 2016 on 18 Nov 2016
A Beginner's Guide to Deployments
at php[world] 2016 on 16 Nov 2016
Open Source for a Successful Business
at php[world] 2016 on 16 Nov 2016
No Modes - The Future of All Web Applications
at php[world] 2016 on 16 Nov 2016
Phone Calls and SMS From PHP
at php[world] 2016 on 16 Nov 2016
Going Pro
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 8 Aug 2016
The API Toolbox
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 8 Aug 2016
Graphs are Everywhere
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 5 Aug 2016
The Websockets Awaken: Using websockets in your PHP application
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 5 Aug 2016
Effectively Monitoring Client-Side Web Performance
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 4 Aug 2016
PHP7 AND BEYOND
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 4 Aug 2016
Caching on the Bleeding Edge
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 4 Aug 2016
DRIVING TECHNICAL CHANGE
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 4 Aug 2016
Dockerizing Development
at Northeast PHP 2016 on 4 Aug 2016
phpdbg for Fun and Profit
at php[tek] 2016 on 27 May 2016
Uncle Cal's Career Advice
at php[tek] 2016 on 27 May 2016
Effective Redis for PHP Developers
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
Angular or Backbone: Go Mobile!
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
JavaScript for PHP Developers
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
Shipping Responsive Images to 25% of the Web
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
The New Revolution
at php[tek] 2016 on 26 May 2016
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Web Apps
at php[tek] 2016 on 25 May 2016
Machine Learning with PHP
at php[tek] 2016 on 25 May 2016
I'm Just Here for the ElePHPants
at php[tek] 2016 on 25 May 2016
I Promise() to Teach You Asynchronous PHP
at php[tek] 2016 on 25 May 2016
Javascript: Beyond jQuery
at Dayton WordCamp 2016 on 12 Mar 2016
Building an Open Source Agency
at Dayton WordCamp 2016 on 12 Mar 2016
Containerizing WordPress
at Dayton WordCamp 2016 on 12 Mar 2016
An Introduction to React.js
at Dayton WordCamp 2016 on 12 Mar 2016
Groupies, Roadies, Rockstars
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 9 Feb 2016
Smiling From the Wrists Down: Customer Service for Developers
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 9 Feb 2016
Adventures in Symfony2 - Building an MMO-RPG
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 9 Feb 2016
Extreme Team Building: Surviving an Ocean Crossing
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 9 Feb 2016
What They Should Tell You About API Development
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 9 Feb 2016
TBA
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
TBA
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
Feature Flags are Flawed: Let's Make Them Better
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
Behat: Beyond the Basics
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
Be a Bold Coder
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
APIs to your brain
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
PCI Compliance for PHP in the Hipster Age
at SunshinePHP 2016 on 6 Feb 2016
Wax On, Wax Off: Coder Dojo
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Building Offline-Enabled Apps with PouchDB
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Practical Computer Science Concepts Simplified
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Data Structures in PHP
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
The Dark Art of Debugging
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, and You
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
Building PHP Daemons and Long Running Processes
at php[tek] 2015 on 30 May 2015
The PHP 7 Story
at php[tek] 2015 on 20 May 2015
Mocking Dependencies in Unit Tests with Phake
at php[tek] 2015 on 20 May 2015
Websockets and Event-driven Programming with PHP
at php[tek] 2015 on 20 May 2015
WordPress 4.1
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
The Greatest Panel on Earth
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
Drupal 8: A Story of Growing Up and Getting Off the Island
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
Trust, Community, and Automatic Updates
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
Testing Spaghetti
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
Unit Testing WordPress Plugins
at php[world] on 15 Nov 2014
21 ways to make WordPress Fast
at php[world] on 14 Nov 2014