Marcus Nightingale

Senior PHP developer · 10+ years building high-throughput web platforms · ISO 27001 Lead Implementor · Game dev.

See my work Nightingale Games

About

A developer who'd rather ship solid software than orchestrate process.

01/03

Ten plus years building high-throughput PHP and Laravel platforms that stay up under real production pressure.

02/03

Designed and built an ISO 27001 audit platform tested at sixty thousand requests per second with no data loss.

03/03

Led ISO 27001 certification with zero non-conformities, and ship indie games on Steam under Nightingale Games.

Things I've made

01 Asteroid Mining Empire A fast-paced pixel-art space mining game: blast asteroids, reinvest in ships and drones, survive pirate raids and black-hole anomalies, and push into rebirth progression. Released April 2026 on Windows, macOS and Linux with 25 Steam achievements. game steam pixel-art 02 SoA Generator A single-file Statement of Applicability builder for ISO 27001:2022. Runs entirely client-side with localStorage, instant search across all controls, and XLSX/JSON export. security iso 27001 tool 03 Control Bento All 93 Annex A controls of ISO 27001:2022 as an interactive bento grid, grouped by control type with instant search. security iso 27001 reference 04 EUR Exchange Rates Live Euro exchange rates against 165 world currencies with a converter, historical charts and JSON/CSV export. web data tool 05 CodePen pens Small front-end experiments and toys. frontend experiments