Peter Day

ピーター・デイ — 開発者

Senior full-stack engineer with 15+ years building high-availability platforms. Ex-CTO of Quuu, now pioneering AI modernisation. Based in Gloucester, UK — making the web more colourful one deploy at a time.

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ようこそ — Welcome

Beyond the code

I'm not just a developer — I'm a whole person with passions, pride, and a love for learning new things.

🏳️‍🌈

Proudly Out in Tech

Visibility matters. As an LGBT developer, I bring my whole self to every project. The tech industry is better when it's diverse, colourful, and unapologetically authentic.

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日本語を勉強中

Currently on a journey learning Japanese. From hiragana to kanji, every character is a small victory.

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Life in Full Colour

Great software should be as vibrant as the people who build it. Bold designs, creative solutions, and a refusal to settle for boring.

技術 — Skills

15+ years of tools & technologies

Backend

PHP 8.4Laravel 12REST APIsRedisMySQLQueues (SQS)TDD

Frontend

Vue 3TailwindNuxtReactSPA/PWASCSS

DevOps & Cloud

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)DockerLinuxCI/CDNginxGitHub Actions

AI & Automation

OpenAI APIsNaive Bayes MLNER ModelsPuppeteerHeadless Automation

仕事 — Experience

Where I've made an impact

A.V. Rillo R&DSenior AI Developer · 2025 — 2026

Modernised a 1980s-era application stack. Built AI-powered QA workflows, automated browsing with Puppeteer, and custom data tooling for legacy code extraction and hex-level data parsing.

PHPLaravelPuppeteerAI/ML
QuuuCTO & Senior Developer · 2018 — 2025

Re-architected core apps from Laravel 5 to 12 + Vue. Shipped Teams, Pods, RSS, Chrome extensions, and AI content tools. Built ML classification (Bayes) and integrated OpenAI. Zero customer-visible incidents. Featured by Forbes, HuffPost, Buffer & HubSpot.

LaravelVueRedisMySQLAWSOpenAI
Park Holidays UKWeb Developer · 2015 — 2018

Built internal tools and rebuilt the Owners Area social network. Contributed to main site rebuild on AWS with S3 and Lambda.

Laravel 5AWSS3/LambdaJavaScript

Earlier: Libre Marketing / Obvious Group (2011–2015) · TME Solutions (2014–2015) · Freelance Developer (2009–2011) · IT Schools Africa (2007–2009)

SaaS Platform

Quuu

CTO — Led the entire rebuild over 7 years

Full rebuild to Laravel 11 + Vue. Teams, Pods, RSS, Chrome extensions, and AI-powered content tools. Featured by Forbes, HuffPost, HubSpot, and Hootsuite.

Laravel 12Vue 3RedisMySQLSQSAWSGitHub Actions

Behind the scenes

  • Migrated the entire platform from Laravel 5.3 to 12 with zero downtime
  • Built an in-house ML classification system (Naive Bayes) for content curation in 2021
  • Integrated OpenAI assistants and functions in 2023 to generate bespoke user content
  • Drove customer-reported downtime to effectively zero through CI/CD and TDD
Quuu screenshot

Charity Internet Radio

Rasdio

Creator & Lead Developer

Internet radio platform with annual 24-hour livestreams raising tens of thousands for charity. Built, produced, and hosted.

LaravelVueStreaming APIsWebSockets

Behind the scenes

  • Organised and hosted annual 24-hour charity livestreams
  • Raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity across multiple events
  • Built the entire streaming and scheduling platform from scratch
  • Maintained the online platform and community year-round
Rasdio screenshot

E-Commerce Platform

The BBQ Society

Lead Developer

Custom Laravel 11 + Vue build using the in-house "Cooker" framework. Story-led e-commerce with strong visual hierarchy and conversion-first patterns.

Laravel 11VueCooker FrameworkStripe

Behind the scenes

  • Developed "Cooker" — a custom e-commerce framework built on Laravel
  • Brand-led design with story-driven product pages
  • Optimised for conversion with A/B tested checkout flows
  • Full inventory management and order processing system
The BBQ Society screenshot

AI-Powered NER

Mentioned.ai

Creator & ML Engineer

Custom Named Entity Recognition model to match names to contacts across the web. AI-powered entity recognition at scale.

PythonNERLaravelMachine Learning

Behind the scenes

  • Trained a custom NER model to identify and match person names across web content
  • Built the data pipeline for ingesting and processing millions of web pages
  • Created a matching algorithm to link detected entities to known contacts
  • Served results via a Laravel API with real-time processing
Mentioned.ai screenshot

AI SaaS — Successfully Sold

MagicBlog.ai

Founder & Developer

Blog generation platform with WordPress integration. Built on Laravel 10, grew the user base, then successfully acquired.

Laravel 10OpenAIWordPress APIStripe

Behind the scenes

  • Built an AI blog generation tool that published directly to WordPress
  • Integrated OpenAI for content generation with custom prompt engineering
  • Grew to a paying user base through organic marketing
  • Successfully sold the product — full acquisition
MagicBlog.ai screenshot

Hospitality Web

The Burger Bar Stroud

Developer & Designer

Fast, focused local-business site with direct calls-to-action, menu integration, and practical content structure built for conversion.

LaravelTailwindResponsive Design

Behind the scenes

  • Designed and built a conversion-focused restaurant website
  • Integrated online menu with real-time availability
  • Mobile-first design optimised for local search and walk-in traffic
  • Fast load times and strong Core Web Vitals scores
The Burger Bar Stroud screenshot

実績 — Impact

Numbers that matter

15+

Years Experience

5,000+

Apps Using My Packages

0

Production Incidents at Quuu

7

Major Platforms Shipped

"Peter is one of the nicest people you will ever meet, and his leading and technical abilities don't let him down, either. He's someone you can completely rely on to get the job done, and it won't just be done, it'll be a brilliant piece of work and be done incredibly quickly. Peter has the passion to stay up to date with everything in the web development and AI world."

— Daniel Dewhurst, Senior Developer, AVRillo R&D

オープンソース — Open Source

docudoodle

PHP

AI-powered codebase documentation tool aimed at legacy applications. Feed it your code, get structured docs out.

PHPComposerOpenAILaravel

Highlights

  • Uses AI to analyse and document existing codebases
  • Designed for legacy PHP applications that lack documentation
  • Composer package installed on thousands of Laravel apps
  • Generates structured markdown documentation automatically
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docudoodle

$ composer require genericmilk/docudoodle

✓ Package installed successfully

$ php artisan docudoodle:run

Processing... done

PHP · MIT License · github.com/genericmilk/docudoodle

オープンソース — Open Source

cooker

PHP

A Laravel-based e-commerce framework. Powers The BBQ Society and other storefronts with a convention-over-configuration approach.

LaravelVueStripeMySQL

Highlights

  • Full e-commerce framework built on top of Laravel
  • Convention-over-configuration for rapid store builds
  • Integrated payments, inventory, and order management
  • Powers real production storefronts
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cooker

$ composer require genericmilk/cooker

✓ Package installed successfully

$ php artisan cooker:run

Processing... done

PHP · MIT License · github.com/genericmilk/cooker

オープンソース — Open Source

ical-tools

JavaScript

CLI tools for working with iCal (.ics) files and calendar workflows. Parse, transform, and automate calendar data.

JavaScriptNode.jsCLI

Highlights

  • Parse and transform iCal files from the command line
  • Automate calendar workflows and event processing
  • Supports recurring events and timezone handling
  • Lightweight with zero heavy dependencies
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ical-tools

$ composer require genericmilk/ical-tools

✓ Package installed successfully

$ php artisan ical-tools:run

Processing... done

JavaScript · MIT License · github.com/genericmilk/ical-tools

オープンソース — Open Source

uwus

TypeScript

AI-generated radio news bulletin tooling. Automated content generation experiments for broadcast-style audio.

TypeScriptOpenAIAudio APIs

Highlights

  • Generates radio-style news bulletins using AI
  • Automated audio content pipeline experiments
  • Built for the Rasdio charity radio platform
  • TypeScript with full type safety
View on GitHub
uwus

$ composer require genericmilk/uwus

✓ Package installed successfully

$ php artisan uwus:run

Processing... done

TypeScript · MIT License · github.com/genericmilk/uwus

オープンソース — Open Source

Laravel Herd

PHP

Contributions to the first-party Laravel local development environment. Helping shape the tools thousands of developers use daily.

PHPLaravelmacOSElectron

Highlights

  • Contributed to the official Laravel Herd project
  • Helped improve the local development experience
  • Part of the broader Laravel open-source ecosystem
  • Used by thousands of Laravel developers worldwide
View on GitHub
Laravel Herd

$ composer require genericmilk/Laravel Herd

✓ Package installed successfully

$ php artisan Laravel Herd:run

Processing... done

PHP · MIT License · github.com/genericmilk/Laravel Herd

一緒に作りましょう

Let's build something
brilliant together

Whether you need an AI-ready technical lead, a creative developer, or just someone who brings energy and colour to your team — I'd love to chat.

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