About Me

• • Took over development from an outsourced team who were not delivering; secured and stabilized insecure WordPress and Laravel client sites
• • Migrated 100+ websites from multiple hosting platforms (primarily AWS) to 20i Reseller hosting, reducing hosting costs by ~70% and improving reliability
• • Introduced development standards: coding conventions, code review process, and client issue reporting workflows
• • Established new site onboarding process for clients joining the agency
• • Led technical delivery across all production websites, ensuring 99.99% uptime
• • AI-Augmented: Introduced AI tools to speed up development safely, writing team guidelines for AI-assisted coding

• • Developed features for Wider Plan salary sacrifice system and Gov.UK services
• • Collaborated within an 8-developer team delivering government services under strict compliance and WCAG AA accessibility constraints
• • Converted CI/CD pipeline from legacy Jenkins to GitHub Actions with custom runner VMs
• • Active code reviewer via GitHub PRs, ensuring high code quality and test coverage
• • Maintained large Symfony codebase supporting payment systems processing millions
• • Devised automated tests in PHPUnit: Acceptance, Feature and Unit testing

• • Promoted from Web Application Developer to Senior Developer (November 2016)
• • Mentored Junior Developers who went on to become Senior Developers
• • Delivered full-stack features end-to-end for prototype projects and main application
• • Created development tooling for a legacy platform
• • Migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL and Windows Server to Ubuntu

• • Delivered full-stack features end-to-end for Laravel systems
• • Worked on projects including a major BBC project
• • Established coding standards and way of working with Laravel
• • CentOS system administration for cloud servers

• • Industrial placement during University
• • Set up open source on GitHub for in-house JavaScript framework
• • Managed AWS cloud services
• • Delivered full-stack features and bug fixes

Multi-tenant SaaS platform for agency site management, supporting 80+ websites

• • Architected and built multi-tenant SaaS platform in Laravel 11
• • Pioneered scalable Kubernetes cluster using infrastructure-as-code, achieving zero-downtime deployments
• • Implemented CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions with automated testing using Pest
• • Authored coding standards and code review practices (PSR12, Rector)
• • Delivered full billing integration with Paddle, training other team members
• • AI-Augmented: Use OpenCode with Claude & Ollama daily for code generation, safety-reviewed before production

Digital agency founded while working freelance in evenings and weekends

• • Founded and ran own digital agency, handling all aspects from sales and marketing to technical delivery
• • Delivered end-to-end projects using Laravel, WordPress, WooCommerce, cPanel, Linux and Shopify
• • Developed own coding standards and CI/CD pipelines
• • Created custom tooling to aid Linux system administration
• • Registered Shopify Partner
• • Managed all client communication, project delivery, and billing