PHP
I've been working with PHP for nearly fifteen years and have built everything from high scale enterprise applications through to small, focused open source libraries. I've even memorized the haystack needle order of all the core methods. Probably.
Solution10 Libraries
2014 - 2017
The Solution10 libraries are a set of packages I've written over the years to solve various problems in the PHP space. All of them use Packagist for distribution and TravisCI for continuous integration.
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?
PHP at the BBC - develop: BBC Conference
An internally focused talk to advertise and promote the work myself and my team had done around working with PHP on AWS including the build tools, RPM repos and libraries for internal services we had created.
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.