Software Engineer & Engineering Leader

Jordan
Havard

Head of Engineering at Octfolio, a multi-tenant compliance SaaS for AU/NZ government and enterprise clients. 10+ years of full-stack PHP/Laravel. Hands-on every day — writing code, reviewing PRs, and shaping architecture alongside a small team. That's where I like to be.

2022 — Present
Head of Engineering
Octfolio

Lead engineering on a multi-tenant compliance SaaS serving Australian and New Zealand government agencies and enterprise clients. Recent work: a big codebase overhaul (legacy monolithic PHP → modular Laravel monolith), customer-facing AI assistants with prompt engineering and prompt-injection testing, a React Native mobile rebuild, and a full Azure infrastructure migration. Along the way: a multi-tenant timezone normalisation to UTC, and reconciling years of tenant-database drift.

PHP / Laravel React / Inertia React Native Azure MySQL AI / Claude NGINX
2019 — Present  ·  Side Project
Lead Engineer
QVirtual

Built and operate Australia's largest virtual airline — a custom flight simulator community platform on PHP/Laravel that I designed and maintain solo. Production MySQL schema from scratch, OFP ingestion, LLM-assisted flight-report validation, and an Electron desktop client for live telemetry.

PHP / Laravel MySQL SimConnect Electron Linux
Laracon Australia 2025 — Conference Speaker
Legacy to Laravel: Wrapping a Legacy PHP Codebase into a Modern, Tested Application
How I wrapped Octfolio's legacy PHP codebase with Laravel — from zero tests and whack-a-mole deploys to shipping daily with confidence, on a live platform serving government clients.
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