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Peter Day

Senior full-stack engineer with 15+ years building high-availability platforms.

Ex-CTO of Quuu, now working on AML at Experian.

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Work

2015 to present. Four companies, one thread: platforms that stay up.

  1. 2026 to present

    Experian

    Software Developer

    Working on RiskScreen, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform that helps organisations screen and monitor customers against sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media to meet regulatory compliance.

  2. 2025 to 2026

    A.V. Rillo R&D

    Senior AI Developer

    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.

  3. 2018 to 2025

    Quuu

    CTO & Senior Developer

    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.

  4. 2015 to 2018

    Park Holidays UK

    Web Developer

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

    2007 to 2015

    Earlier roles

    • Libre Marketing / Obvious Group (2011 to 2015)
    • TME Solutions (2014 to 2015)
    • Freelance Developer (2009 to 2011)
    • IT Schools Africa (2007 to 2009)

2026 to present

Experian

Software Developer

Global data and analytics company, one of the world’s largest credit services providers, helping businesses manage risk and prevent financial crime.

Key contributions

  • Joined the RiskScreen team to develop and enhance AML screening capabilities
  • Working on sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media monitoring tooling
  • Contributing to a platform used by organisations worldwide for regulatory compliance
  • AML
  • Risk & Compliance
  • Data Analytics
Visit Experian

2025 to 2026

A.V. Rillo R&D

Senior AI Developer

The UK’s No. 1 rated conveyancing firm, trusted by 40,000+ clients for fast, reliable property transactions with expert legal guidance.

Key contributions

  • Modernised legacy systems dating back to the 1980s into a maintainable Laravel stack
  • Built AI-powered QA workflows to automate conveyancing quality checks
  • Automated complex browser flows with Puppeteer for data extraction at scale
  • Created custom hex-level data parsing tools for legacy code migration
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Puppeteer
  • AI/ML
  • Python
Visit A.V. Rillo R&D

2018 to 2025

Quuu

CTO & Senior Developer

Social media growth platform helping creators and businesses build audiences across Facebook, LinkedIn, and X through intelligent content curation.

Key contributions

  • Led the entire platform rebuild over 7 years: Laravel 5.3 to 12 with zero downtime
  • Built an in-house ML classification system (Naive Bayes) for content curation
  • Integrated OpenAI assistants and functions for bespoke user content generation
  • Shipped Teams, Pods, RSS feeds, Chrome extensions, and AI content tools
  • Drove customer-reported downtime to effectively zero through CI/CD and TDD
  • Featured by Forbes, HuffPost, Buffer, HubSpot, and Hootsuite
  • Laravel 12
  • Vue 3
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • AWS
  • OpenAI
Visit Quuu

2015 to 2018

Park Holidays UK

Web Developer

The UK’s largest family holiday park network: 46+ parks, 15,000+ holiday home owners, and multiple British Travel Award winners.

Key contributions

  • Rebuilt the Owners Area, a social network connecting 15,000+ holiday home owners
  • Built internal tooling to streamline operations across 46+ parks nationwide
  • Contributed to the full main site rebuild on AWS infrastructure
  • Implemented S3 and Lambda integrations for scalable media and data processing
  • Laravel 5
  • AWS
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL
Visit Park Holidays UK

Selected projects

Six builds, from a seven-year platform rebuild to a burger bar in Stroud.

  1. 01

    SaaS Platform

    Quuu

    SaaS Platform

    Quuu homepage

    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.

    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
    • Laravel 12
    • Vue 3
    • Redis
    • MySQL
    • SQS
    • AWS
    • GitHub Actions
    Visit Quuu

  2. 02

    Charity Internet Radio

    Rasdio

    Charity Internet Radio

    Rasdio homepage

    Rasdio

    Creator & Lead Developer

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

    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
    • Laravel
    • Vue
    • Streaming APIs
    • WebSockets
    Visit Rasdio

  3. 03

    E-Commerce Platform

    The BBQ Society

    E-Commerce Platform

    The BBQ Society homepage

    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.

    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
    • Laravel 11
    • Vue
    • Cooker Framework
    • Stripe
    Visit The BBQ Society

  4. 04

    AI-Powered NER

    Mentioned.ai

    AI-Powered NER

    Mentioned.ai homepage

    Mentioned.ai

    Creator & ML Engineer

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

    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
    • Python
    • NER
    • Laravel
    • Machine Learning
    Visit Mentioned.ai

  5. 05

    AI SaaS, successfully sold

    MagicBlog.ai

    AI SaaS, successfully sold

    MagicBlog.ai homepage

    MagicBlog.ai

    Founder & Developer

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

    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 in a full acquisition
    • Laravel 10
    • OpenAI
    • WordPress API
    • Stripe
    Visit MagicBlog.ai

  6. 06

    Hospitality Web

    The Burger Bar Stroud

    Hospitality Web

    The Burger Bar Stroud homepage

    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.

    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
    • Laravel
    • Tailwind
    • Responsive Design
    Visit The Burger Bar Stroud

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 DewhurstSenior Developer, AVRillo R&D

Numbers that matter

Years Experience
15+
Apps Using My Packages
5,000+
Production Incidents at Quuu
0
Major Platforms Shipped
7

Open source

Packages I write and maintain, free for anyone to use.

Away from these, I also help out on Laravel Herd.

  1. PHP

    Installs on Packagist
    50,981
    Stars on GitHub
    163

    docudoodle

    Point it at a codebase, legacy or not, and it writes Markdown documentation with AI. It skips files that already have docs, so you can top up after each feature.

    composer require genericmilk/docudoodle
    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • OpenAI

  2. PHP

    Installs on Packagist
    6,823

    cooker

    The Laravel-native frontend toolkit. Tailwind, React, Vue and TypeScript bundling, all from php artisan, with no Node, no npm and no node_modules.

    composer require genericmilk/cooker
    • Laravel
    • esbuild
    • Tailwind

  3. PHP

    sakura

    A Laravel package that writes tests for your PHP classes and functions, using OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or a local Ollama model.

    composer require genericmilk/sakura
    • Laravel
    • AI
    • Testing

  4. JavaScript

    ical-tools

    Command-line tools for .ics calendar files, like ical-coverage, which shows how your time splits across event types.

    • Node.js
    • CLI

  5. TypeScript

    uwus

    Fetches the day’s news, rewrites it with AI, voices it with ElevenLabs and mixes it over a music bed into a radio bulletin. Two modes: UWU kawaii, and John of the North.

    • Bun
    • Claude
    • ElevenLabs

Swift apps for macOS like docker-domains and paper, small JavaScript snippets from years back, and whatever comes next.

Explore it all on GitHub

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.

日本語を勉強中

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

桜
Cherry blossom
コード
Code
虹
Rainbow
頑張る
To persevere
光
Light
夢
Dream

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.

Based in Gloucester, UK, making the web more colourful one deploy at a time.

15+ years of tools & technologies

  • PHP 8.5
  • Laravel 13
  • REST APIs
  • Redis
  • MySQL
  • Queues (SQS)
  • TDD
  • DRY
  • SOLID principles
  • Vue 3
  • Tailwind
  • Nuxt
  • React
  • SPA/PWA
  • SCSS
  • AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • Nginx
  • GitHub Actions
  • OpenAI APIs
  • Naive Bayes ML
  • NER Models
  • Puppeteer
  • Headless Automation