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Consultant Senior PHP Developer at J Sainsbury

Brought in to upgrade a legacy Symfony 2 application for long term support. Also did some code gardening.

Freelance PHP Developer

Part of the team responsible for the development of the Explorify website (science for primary school teachers). During my time there we refactored the majority of the codebase (PHP, frontend and the database), added additional automation for testing and QA, and upgraded the site from Symfony 3 to 4. Day to day work included code reviews, adding new features, cleaning data, maintenance and as much code gardening as I could squeeze in. I also contributed back to several of the open source bundles we used.

I was brought in as a full stack developer, so I also worked with the team on adding automated testing to the frontend using Chai, Mocha, Cypress and Nightwatch (with Browserstack); and helped refactor the frontend code (with an emphasis on accessibly and UX) and developed new features (using Webpack, Javascript and SCSS/CSS). We also added in a stats dashboard, split testing (A/B), tracking and monitoring so we could see how our new features improved the user experience.

Freelance Senior Software Developer

We were brought in to evaluate the technical process at Onlicar and help streamline it. I worked with the existing team to add in monitoring for their services, update the documentation to understand how all the systems worked together, and introduced the developers to automated testing. I also code reviewed and QA’d new python code for a system upgrade by our internal team.

Consultant Engineering Manager

Been working with Symfony since version 1.0, and every version since.  Currently rewriting my own personal projects in Symfony 4 as an exercise. Big fan of the framework.

Been working with PHP since PHP4. Very excited with PHP7 and all the improvements that have been made to the language.

Huge proponent of testing (TDD, BDD, DDD). Used various technologies including (but not limited to): PHPSpec, PHPUnit, Behat (and Gherkin), Cypress, Nightwatch, Chai and Mocha.

Been working with HTML/CSS from the very start of me learning to code.  I coded my first site in plain text, though I've migrated to using a code editor these days.

Started working with JavaScript in the era of IE6, so I've done a great deal of blind debugging.  Not an expert in any JS framework, but I can hold my own.

Experienced PHP and Symfony Software Engineer and Mentor. TDD/ BDD/ DDD. Accessiblity focused.

Jo Carter

During my time on Explorify  we refactored the majority of the codebase (PHP, frontend and the database), added additional automation for testing and QA, and upgraded the site from Symfony 3 to 4. Day to day work included code reviews, adding new features, cleaning data, maintenance and as much code gardening as I could squeeze in. I also contributed back to several of the open source bundles we used.

I was brought in as a full stack developer, so I also worked with the team on adding automated testing to the frontend using Chai, Mocha, Cypress and Nightwatch (with Browserstack); and helped refactor the frontend code (with an emphasis on accessibly and UX) and developed new features (using Webpack, Javascript and SCSS/CSS). We also added in a stats dashboard, split testing (A/B), tracking and monitoring so we could see how our new features improved the user experience.

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Jo C.

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