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David Ciulla

東京 · Tokyo

Lead engineer · advisor on demand · Laravel Japan community builder

Website X Bluesky /dev/null LinkedIn

東京から · From Tokyo with curiosity

Swiss-born, Tokyo-based full stack engineer and entrepreneur. I build products, advise on demand, mentor web developers privately, and help grow Japan’s Laravel community — as co-organizer of PHP×Tokyo and Laravel Live Japan.

Laravel since 2015 · Vue since 2017 · Nuxt since 2018 · Tailwind since 2020

Now

Day job
Lead Full Stack Engineer · WeWork Japan · since 2025

Studio
Founder / builder · Offskip

Community
Co-organizer · PHP×Tokyo · Laravel Live Japan

On demand
Architecture reviews, Laravel/PHP direction, technical due diligence, and AI-assisted delivery with Cursor — without a full-time hire.

Previously
Web Engineer, Cybird (2020–2025)
Co-Founder / CTO, 5Degrees.ch (2014–2022)

Featured

Project What it is
Laravel Live Japan — Attendee Card Design and share your conference card — import from X or GitHub
PHP×Tokyo Meetup hub for PHP & Laravel developers in Tokyo
Laravel Live Japan Conference program, venue, and community home
LLJ Travel Guide Practical visitor notes for Tachikawa and Tokyo
Personal site Portfolio, writing, EN/JA, TresJS frontier hero
Omarchy JPopsuki Radio Public bar plugin — Icecast stream through mpv

Other builds (native Linux tools, Laravel products, experiments) stay private for now. Happy to talk about them over coffee.

Stack

Laravel, PHP, Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind, Vitest, GitHub Actions, Linux, Rust, Elixir, Postgres

Reach for first Also in rotation
Laravel · Vue · Nuxt · Tailwind · Pest · Playwright Rust · Elixir · Go · Inertia · Livewire · Omarchy / Hyprland

Daily driver: Cursor + Omarchy. 20+ years on the web.

Community

I co-organize Japan’s Laravel conference and Tokyo’s monthly PHP meetup, and I show up around the wider PHP community — PHPカンファレンス, study meetups and more.

  • Organizer / MC — PHP×Tokyo
  • Co-organizer — Laravel Live Japan (incl. 2026, Tachikawa)
  • Guest — PHPカンファレンス, PHP勉強会＠東京, NativePHP sessions

Writing lives on the site blog: Omarchy settings, Laravel CMS notes, meetup recaps, tooling.

Mentorship

Private mentorship for web developers — Laravel, PHP, full-stack craft — plus short advisory engagements:

  • System design and codebase reviews on demand
  • Build-vs-buy and technical due diligence
  • Team coaching and AI-assisted development with Cursor

Languages

English · German · Japanese (JLPT N3) · French (B1)

Connect

Say hello — consulting, mentorship, community work, or coffee in Tokyo (or wherever the Laravel calendar puts us).

Website · X · Bluesky · /dev/null · Pinkary · LinkedIn · Instagram

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