CSS & SASS
I actually started my career doing table based layouts. I now use SASS for everything. I know which I prefer.
Aranea Image Manager
2017 - 2017
An Electron based React and Redux application to manage large, local image libraries synced with Dropbox.
Principal Web Developer & Tech Lead - BBC iPlayer Radio
2012 - 2017
Leading the team both in terms of software development and line management, my main achievement was the design and implementation of the next-gen PHP platform for iPlayer Radio; from the RPM build tools to package the app through to leading the development of client libraries and application paradigms. The resulting composition based architecture scaled to over a million requests a day on minimal hardware (~ 5 instances total)
Personal Projects
2006 - 2017
In my free time, I've experimented with creating board games in Javascript, equipment booking systems, RESTful calendar APIs, game dev with Unity and SDL and more besides that I couldn't hope to list here. If you're interested in what else I can or want to do, why not get in touch?
alexgisby.me
A ReactJS based portfolio site, and a chance for me to sink my teeth into AWS Lambda and universal Javascript applications.
Web Developer - Wallpaper.com (Time Inc)
2011 - 2012
Developer for Wallpaper.com, an international website handling around 5.5 million page views a month. Based on Zend Framework, CodeIgniter and Akamai, with a MySQL database backend. Also created Wallpaper.cn a Chinese variant of the site requiring substantial refactoring to support multi-language content from CMS through to frontend.
PHP MVC Developer - v4 Technical
2009 - 2011
Building everything from e-commerce platforms to internal communication tools, usually in Kohana, with MySQL backends.