Personal details

Jim B. - Remote

Jim B.

Timezone: Vienna (UTC+2)

Summary

Started with LOGO, moved on to VB 4, tried some PASCAL and later on discovered PHP. My current love is a mixture between Laravel and Angular while experimenting with C# on Unity. Main dream is to end up in Silicon Valley, hopefully as a developer ;-)

Work Experience

Web Developer
Cashpoint Sportwetten | May 2015 - Present
PHP
Laravel
Jenkins
Docker
Yii 2
Angular 4
Austria based betting company (known in the UK as xtip.co.uk), offering to its clients betting opportunities like sportsbook and (live) casino games. I contributed in switching the company’s methodology from waterfall to SCRUM and acted as SCRUM Master for the Malta team for five months during which the team saw an increase of productivity leading to consistent burndown charts. I was/am part of the “Internet” Development team, with main responsibilities the implementation of new features, improvement of the deployment procedure as well as bugfixing. I contributed to the re-develop of the whole website by suggesting the use of Laravel and Angular 4 with a mobile-first approach, and deployment via Jenkins on a Docker container. Contributed on creating the REST API on which the Angular frontend is based and on various architectural decisions.
Freelance Web Developer
kwarks.gr | Feb 2003 - Present
PHP
WordPress
Joomla!
TypeScript
Ionic
Laravel 5
Apache cordova
Angular 4
Over 200 websites, kwarks.gr (formerly eWEBs.gr) is mostly a one man show... i am designing, maintaining, upgrading corporate websites.