I'm JΓ©rΓ΄me Gamez, a platform and backend engineer with 20+ years of experience.
I'm a Jack of all trades with a soft spot for PHP, legacy software and, of course, Open Source software.
My mission is to make the work of all developers (myself included) more productive and enjoyable. I have a special affinity for code quality, stability, and legacy software, and consider no code base to be unmaintainable πͺπ».
My most prolific project is the (unofficial) Firebase Admin SDK for PHP and its related libraries, which are downloaded 1.5M+ times a month, but I also publish and maintain many more Open Source projects at BESTE and my personal accounts.
- beste/firebase-php - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP (today)
- beste/firebase-tokens-php - A PHP library to work with Firebase tokens (today)
- beste/latlon-geohash-php - π Gustavo Niemeyer's geocoding system (1 week ago)
- beste/renovate-config - BESTE Renovate Config (1 month ago)
- beste/firebase-jwt - A framework-agnostic PHP library to work with Firebase JSON Web Tokens. (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects. (1 month ago)
- beste/.github - (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things (1 month ago)
- jeromegamez/.github - (2 months ago)
- beste/laravel-firebase - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK (2 months ago)
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-test - A library that does awesome things
- jeromegamez/valinor-troubleshooting -
- jeromegamez/pinboard-for-newsblur - Fixing pinboard.in keywords to be displayed correctly in NewsBlur
- jeromegamez/dotfiles - My dotfiles, managed with https://chezmoi.io.
- jeromegamez/issue-template-tests - A repo to test how issue templates look like before using them elsewhere
- jeromegamez/clock-poc - Proof of concept for the proposed clock PSR
- jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php - Cookiecutter template for new PHP projects.
- jeromegamez/php-library-template - This project has been replaced by https://github.com/jeromegamez/cookiecutter-php-project
- jeromegamez/.github -
- jeromegamez/duration-php - Working with durations made easy
- beste/firebase-php (8.3.0, 1 day ago) - Unofficial Firebase Admin SDK for PHP
- beste/firebase-tokens-php (5.4.0, 1 day ago) - A PHP library to work with Firebase tokens
- googleapis/google-cloud-php (v0.336.0, 1 day ago) - Google Cloud Client Library for PHP
- coollabsio/coolify (v4.1.2, 1 month ago) - An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
- beste/laravel-firebase (7.2.1, 2 months ago) - A Laravel package for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- beste/gcp-metadata-php (1.4.0, 2 months ago) - Get the metadata from a Google Cloud Platform environment.
- beste/in-memory-cache-php (1.5.0, 2 months ago) - A PSR-6 In-Memory cache that can be used as a fallback implementation and/or in tests.
- beste/php-cs-fixer-config (3.3.0, 2 months ago) - PHP CS Fixer Config used in BESTE projects
- beste/firebase-bundle (6.1.0, 4 months ago) - A Symfony Bundle for the Firebase PHP Admin SDK
- jeromegamez/ramsey-uuid-normalizer (3.3.0, 5 months ago) - Symfony Normalizer and Denormalizer for ramsey/uuid
- Implement eventual consistency for flaky tests on beste/firebase-php (1 day ago)
- Update docs dependencies on beste/firebase-php (4 days ago)
- Cache verifier key values instead of
Keysobjects on beste/firebase-tokens-php (1 week ago) - Modernize project on beste/firebase-tokens-php (1 week ago)
- Add CODEOWNERS & Renovate on beste/latlon-geohash-php (1 week ago)
- Fix Firestore V2 client configuration on beste/firebase-php (1 month ago)
- Bump tool versions on beste/firebase-php (1 month ago)
- Automerge GitHub Actions digest pinning on beste/renovate-config (1 month ago)
- Improve Renovate GitHub Actions pinning flow on beste/renovate-config (1 month ago)
- Allow immediate GitHub Actions digest pinning on beste/renovate-config (1 month ago)
- microsoft/comic-chat - Source code for the Microsoft Comic Chat IRC client (1 day ago)
- workweave/router - Model router for agentic systems. Routes every prompt to the right model in <50ms. Cut costs 40-70% with just an endpoint change. (1 day ago)
- cachix/secretspec - Declare secrets once. Store them anywhere. (4 days ago)
- Fission-AI/OpenSpec - Spec-driven development (SDD) for AI coding assistants. (1 week ago)
- seachicken/gh-poi - β¨ Safely clean up your local branches (1 week ago)
- headroomlabs-ai/headroom - Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server. (1 week ago)
- Younesfdj/gitfut - Your GitHub stats, turned into a World-Cup-style player card (1 week ago)
- GoogleChrome/modern-web-guidance - (1 week ago)
- plasticity-of-cloud/KubeMicroVM - The first community Kubernetes controller for AWS Lambda MicroVMs, with JOSDK, Quarkus and GraalVM (2 weeks ago)
- eksctl-io/eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS (2 weeks ago)
- tdomarkas (1 month ago)
- polidog (1 year ago)
- notdefine (2 years ago)
- exitable (2 years ago)
- bennyt2 (4 years ago)
If you use one of my projects, I'd love to hear from you. Let me know what you like and what needs being improved. And if you're a happy user of one or many of my projects, please consider becoming a GitHub Sponsor!
- Mastodon: https://phpc.social/@jay
- Email: github@jerome.gamez.name






