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Collective World - Head of Technology

October 2022 - May 2023

Managing a team of developers on various Drupal, Symfony and ReactJS projects. Focal point of call for all technical issues, including bugs and new feature development.

Responsibilities included:

  • Worked alongside PMs to plan/manage workloads, including ticket creation and task management
  • Conducted stakeholder meetings to provide feedback and reporting
  • Actively involved in code reviews and production deployments
  • Facilitated team 1:1s, appraisals and promotions

JBi Digital - Tech Lead

March 2020 - October 2022

Working alongside a group of Project Managers, and offshore Frontend and Backend Developers on a wide variety of data platforms, including Drupal, Laravel and ReactJS (incluing React Native).

Responsibilities included:

  • Managing a group of Backend and Frontend developers across multiple projects and technologies
  • Designing/architecting complex data-driven applications
  • Researching and introducing AWS Lambda and Serverless for highly-available REST APIs
  • Driving development using JIRA to break down complex tasks into smaller tasks
  • Sprint planning, grooming and improving workflows

Axis12 - Senior PHP Developer

September 2018 - March 2020

Working in a small fast-paced agency alongside other PHP developers, project managers, DevOps and Product Managers.

Responsibilities included:

  • Working alongside Product Manager to create new features and workflows for custom SaaS EdTech product
  • Creating and updating existing REST APIs written in Symfony, Laravel and VueJS with integration and front-end tests
  • Responsible for deploying new features to multiple environments using various tools and scripts
  • Mentoring other developers to make sure best practices and development standards were high

Ayima - Full-Stack PHP Developer

February 2016 - August 2018

Building custom SEO tools and applications written in PHP (Laravel) and Javascript (VueJS).

Responsibilities included:

  • Creating custom REST APIs in Laravel, VueJS and Zend Framework for a suite of bespoke SaaS products
  • Researched and introduced Docker to development processed and Kubernetes to host/deploy microservices architecture
  • Working alongside other stakeholders to improve efficiency of products and services

Acknowledgement - PHP Developer

December 2013 - January 2016

Part of a team of 10 developers building new features and services of a large enterprise e-commerce platform, written using an in-house custom PHP framework.

Responsibilities included:

  • Was Lead Developer on application for new and existing customers
  • Introduced and applied Unit Testing into the main platform to ensure code was correct and working as expected (Codeception/PHPUnit)
  • Added CI/CD concepts to improve delivery of applications and services

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate