Gunnard Engebreth
30+ years building software. Engineering Manager at Realtime Software Solutions. Two Apress books on PHP 8. 13 live SaaS products.
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Engineering since
1995.
Software Engineering Manager with 30+ years of experience leading development teams, architecting enterprise-grade applications, and modernizing legacy systems. Deep expertise in PHP, TypeScript, Next.js, Laravel, AWS, and Docker — from solo founder to managing 15–20 developers across 5+ concurrent projects.
Independently built and operates a portfolio of 13 production SaaS applications with Stripe billing and centralized monitoring.
Believer in FOSS — contributor to WordPress, The Devil Box, and DiscordPHP. Published author of two Apress books on PHP 8 and speaker at php[tek] 2023 & 2026, MadisonPHP, LonghornPHP, Techlahoma, and Chaos Carnaval.
Currently lives in the north Georgia mountains with his wife, two boys, 12 chickens, 2 cows, and a pig.
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13 live products.
All built from scratch.
SellDeck
Real profit for resellers
Reseller software for Whatnot & eBay. Live show dashboard, AI pricing with eBay comps, inventory tracking, and tax-ready reports.
ShipStack
Stop rebuilding your backend
BaaS aggregator — one unified API for Auth, Database & Storage. Swap Supabase, Firebase, or Appwrite without rewriting code.
AgentBurn
AI agent cost tracking & FinOps
AI agent cost tracking and FinOps platform with per-agent budgeting, cost event ingestion, and usage analytics. Built for teams running multi-agent pipelines.
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Published by Apress
Two books on PHP 8 covering everything from fundamentals to cutting-edge language features.
PHP 8 Revealed
Discover the new and updated features of PHP 8
Deep-dive into PHP 8's most powerful new capabilities. Covers the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, match expressions, named arguments, and more — with real-life use cases for each.
By Gunnard Engebreth
PHP 8 Basics
For Programming and Web Development
Take advantage of PHP 8's powerful features to create basic web applications, solve code tests, and move towards advanced PHP concepts. Covers modules, attributes, JIT compiler, union types, and Symfony.
By Gunnard Engebreth & Satej Kumar Sahu