James Brooks
British developer; Head of Enterprise Enablement at Laravel and creator of Cachet.
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- James Brooks is a British software engineer who works at Laravel, where he worked on Laravel Forge and Envoyer and is Head of Enterprise Enablement as of 2026.
- He created Cachet, an open-source status page system.
- He organises PHP Stoke, a meet-up in Stoke-on-Trent, and hosts Happy Dev, a podcast about mental health in software development.
Key facts
- Role
- Head of Enterprise Enablement, Laravel (as of 2026); earlier on Laravel Forge and Envoyer1
- Open source
- Founder of Cachet, the open-source status page system2
- Community
- Organises PHP Stoke; hosts the Happy Dev podcast1
- Lives in
- Newcastle-under-Lyme, England1
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