Sr dev in charge of deep debugging, maintenence programming and refactoring on internal and customer facing systems (large laravel app) including BI, inventory control (ERP), customer support and accounting. As well as customer facing website. Work with jr developers to imrpove knowledge of best practices and testing.

Sr. Developer

Lead a greenfield rewrite of a large benefits administration system. Did all the hiring, requirements, architecture , developed best practices and planned/assigned work. also worked as a developer doing much of the dev work

Project Lead

Worked as sr. dev/ team lead. Main job was maintaining and refactoring a large PHP4 app (with register globals enabled!) into PHP7. Refactored procedural code to OOP and implemented a framework, unit tests and DIC. Trrained junior staff on best practices, OOP and testing. Implemented angular-based web 2.0 frontend and microservice backend. Dealt with HIPAA compliance

Sr Developer

Worked as a sr. developer for a large media publisher. Worked on many high alexa ranked websites.  Responsible mainly for refactoring, debugging and implementing testing

Worked as sr developer for  an alexa ranked 1,000 website. Refactored a 10 year old legacy system (CGI scripts) into a modern web 2.0 app with a JS/Wordpress frontend and microservice backend. Migrated Endeca/MySQL backend to Solr. Also migrated site to AWS from physical data center

Sr. Developer , refactored, maintained and programmed most of the companies systems from e-commerce to business intelligence and their core products which involved big data searching (2.4 billion records). We were one of the first adopters of Lucene/Solr on a large data set.

Freelance developer, worked for several companies on contract , did full life cycle development.

Freelance Developer

Worked my way up from Intern to Jr developer.  Taught programming classes for sys admins and level 3 tech support

Jr Developer

Have worked from jr dev up to project lead and every job in between. Most experience in refactoring large legacy systems into well structured and tested code, deep debugging and maintenance programming. Experience from 4.0 to 7.1 I have spent much of my career mentoring junior devs, my first job in software was a programming teacher for children. I have run many internal "career development" workshops for novice and experienced dev s to "level up"

Scored in the Top 10% on PHP certification test on Upwork (https://www.upwork.com/ab/tests/exam/16624220)

I have spent 19 years mastering the dark art of Perl development. I know how to write well structured and well tested code in Perl while also taking advantage of its  functional/lisp-like features which provide its biggest advantages in productivity and expressiveness. I also know many of the modern packages like Moose, Moo and modern framworks like Catalyist and Dancer.  I was mentored by one of Moose's core developers. I have worked as Junior , Mid, and Senior dev in Perl I have also taught many career development classes to help novice Perl programmers "level up" their skills. My main experience is in large scale refactoring and deep debugging.

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Nick P.

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