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Yannick Lyn Fatt

Full-Stack Engineer

// jamaica, jm · UTC-5

Building in the open from Jamaica. Full-Stack Engineer.

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Veteran Jamaican PHP/Laravel full-stacker

assessed from open-source footprint

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78signal

Yannick is a long-established Jamaican engineer (17.8yr, 127 followers) working primarily in PHP/Laravel, with 146 commits and 58 merged PRs last year. His external repo list (laravel/roster, JustSteveKing/api-skill) looks impressive but reflects 0-1 commit drive-bys rather than core contributions, and his own repos are small with 90% abandonment. A capable, experienced full-stack generalist — set expectations on the depth of those big-name links.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on php-xml2srt
58 merged PRs146 commits / yr21 external projects368 private contributions / yr

Contributes to

  • laravel/roster156
  • JustSteveKing/api-skill75
  • sowailem/Ownable71
  • ludoguenet/laravel-whizbang25

What they build

Backend53%
Frontend38%

Industry experience

  • Developer Tools
  • Education & EdTech
  • Fintech & Payments

Signal breakdown

Originality69
Impact100
Consistency71
Polish54
Stars

21

top repo 4

Original repos

29

57% forks

Followers

127

On GitHub

17.8 yr

Live demos

5

Activity

Active

90% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on php-xml2srt
  • Open-source contributor — 21 external projects incl. laravel/roster (156★)
  • 58 merged pull requests
  • Ships to production — 5 live demos
  • Backend focus with Frontend
  • Domain experience in Developer Tools & Education & EdTech
  • Core stack: PHP, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript