Andy Hinkle is a software developer from Santa Claus, Indiana, with over 10 years of experience specializing in Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript. He is known for his expertise in Laravel development and is also the co-host of The Midwest Artisan podcast. Andy enjoys solving problems and writing clean, expressive code.
Hinkle is an open-source contributor to the Laravel framework. Recent contributions include adding typed getters on Cache and BackedEnum support for session keys. He also gave a presentation at Laravel Worldwide about keeping Laravel applications elegant when dealing with complex business requirements. In this talk, he shared strategies for managing complexity, handling edge cases, and maintaining code quality.