Rob Mellett

Software Engineer from Melbourne, Australia. I've been building for the web for 15+ years, working with startups, agencies, and enterprise teams to ship fast, reliable products. For the last 10+ of those years I've been a Laravel developer, shipping and scaling production PHP across a string of teams and products.

Today I work as a Staff Engineer, after six years leading teams as a Tech Lead. A typical day is a mix of the deep technical work I love and the leadership that comes with the role — pairing on hard problems, reviewing code and architecture, mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and clearing the path so the people around me can ship their best work.

The current AI rush has me genuinely energised. It's inspiring me to build cloud-native applications on Cloudflare with TypeScript — leaning into edge compute, Workers, and the wider platform to ship globally distributed software that's fast, testable, and easy to change.