Larry Garfield

Larry Garfield is an accomplished software engineer and independent contributor with extensive experience in PHP development. Notable roles include serving as a Staff Engineer at TYPO3 GmbH, where efforts focused on PHP 8 compatibility, and as a Staff Software Engineer at LegalZoom, leading a team to modernize Laravel applications. Larry's significant contributions to the PHP community include co-authoring the Enumerations RFC for PHP 8 and leading the Drupal 8 overhaul project, which transitioned Drupal to a modern object-oriented platform. In leadership roles such as Director of Developer Experience at Platform.sh, Larry excelled in producing customer-facing documentation and representing the company at technology conferences. Larry holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction from DePaul University.