About me

A freelance web developer with 8 years' commercial experience and a history of successful web builds.

Back-End Web Development: 8 years' experience with CakePHP. Solid knowledge of other frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony. Thorough understanding of building maintainable, test-driven, scalable web applications using object-oriented code and the model-view-controller pattern. Solid experience with PHP 5, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Front-End Web Development: 6 years' experience with jQuery. Thorough understanding of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Proven experience developing quality, user-focused, accessible and standards-compliant websites.

Systems Administration: 5 years' experience provisioning and maintaining Linux servers to run highly trafficked websites with high availability. Solid command-line knowledge. Experience with git, cron, rsync and related utilities. Ability to administer Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Exim, OpenSSH and other services.