Valithor Obsidion

Independent open-source developer. Owner and maintainer of the DiscordPHP ecosystem — the async PHP library for building Discord bots on ReactPHP (github.com/discord-php/DiscordPHP), its HTTP and rate-limit transport (DiscordPHP-Http), its voice stack with Opus and DAVE end-to-end encryption (DiscordPHP-Voice), plus the TwitchPHP family and several smaller libraries and bots. Everything is MIT-licensed and used in production by other people filing real issues. Sponsorship is the entire funding model: there is no paid tier and no open-core plan. Funding pays for the unglamorous half of maintenance — issue triage, release chores, keeping up with Discord and Twitch API breakage, dependency and security updates, and documentation.