(Remote) Canada → Netherlands · 2020—Present Core Skills: PHP/Symfony · GraphQL · Social Media · Third-party APIs
Principal backend developer for overhauling a legacy product into a modern, GraphQL-backed application.
Identified the architectural solutions required for the challenges that arise from rebuilding a legacy application to a modern development stack from scratch.
Improved both speed and memory performance usage of legacy product up to 50 times via application profiling.
Maintained a 100% test coverage rate for an entire GraphQL API for both functional and unit tests.
Lead PHP developer for in-house and client projects, both new and legacy, including: BC Liquor, Mental Health
Commission Canada, Palo Alto, Eventbase, Sundance Film Festival.
Increased the resilience of the company assets spread across multiple continents, upgraded internal source control, and added automated upgrades and backups
Decreased company expenses and increased developer productivity by obsoleting old manual deployment processes, replacing with automated CI/CD and containerized deployment.
Achieved 100% reliability for high-traffic projects for physical events/conferences using fewer servers, improving Intergalactic's reputation and earning repeat business from clients.
Minor exposure to Golang and Node.js
Senior Software Developer, CarePlanner Ltd
Bristol, England · 2018—2019 Core Skills: PHP/Symfony · RESTful APIs · SaaS · Data Protection · GDPR
A leading role spearheading a project to build a RESTful API platform from the ground up for a
rapidly-growing SaaS provider in the Home Care sector.
Reduced organization's risk while storing/handling health and medical data of vulnerable individuals by ensuring strict compliance of ISO 27001 & GDPR within the developer teams.
Consolidated market share for the organization for building APIs that brought two external companies and a local government authority to collaborate with CarePlanner rather than compete.
Coached a Drupal 7 development team of 3 on Symfony framework from scratch.
Worked on the backend of a global B2B site-building SaaS platform and its supporting projects.
Kept a multi-million line codebase up to date, or rewrote several legacy parts, to transition the application from PHP 5.x to 7
Ensured that builds could be reliably deployed with confidence by adding significant behavioural test case coverage on top of the existing unit tests within the CI pipeline.
Streamlined the company's onboarding process for new developers by documenting features, technical specifications and infrastructure requirements.
Developer for a cloud-based digital debt and loan management application, and supporting software/hardware.
Kept the software ahead of constantly changing legal and regulatory changes within the industry
Handled deployments of software for both cloud-based servers and in-store shop kiosks, with bottom-line accountability for the company's infrastructure
Led and mentored teams of developers both in-house and remote (Bulgaria), including travelling to provide training
Performed software demonstrations at conferences for financial sector audiences
Web Developer, nerv Interactive
Cheltenham, England · 2010—2011
Delivered white-label products for clients such as BAE Systems, NHS, Skype, Gossip Consultancy, and Molson Coors.
Drupal Developer, Tigerfish Interactive
Cheltenham, England · 2010
Developed modular-based automated online social-media marketing platform.