Personal details

Beau S.

Timezone: Central Time (US & Canada) (UTC-5)

Summary

Beau Simensen (@beausimensen, beausimensen.com) is a Technology Strategy Consultant and has been a professional polyglot programmer since 1998. An active open-sourcer, he created Sculpin (sculpin.io) and helped create Stack PHP (stackphp.com). He also served as a Core Committee member for the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) (php-fig.org).

Technical skills

Top 3 skills

PHP・10 yrs Laravel・5 yrs Symfony・8 yrs

Other skills

Design・10 yrs Node.js・4 yrs Vue.js・4 yrs React・5 yrs Tailwind css・3 yrs JavaScript・10 yrs Vapor・1 yr Domain-Driven Design・10 yrs Database・10 yrs Event Sourcing・5 yrs Event Storming・3 yrs

Personal Projects

That Podcast

2018

HTML5

Image Processing

Amazon S3

JavaScript

AMQP

Symfony4

Podcast

Tailwind css

Symfony flex

For over 4 years, the website for That Podcast with Beau and Dave was a static site using Sculpin. As the original creator of Sculpin, this wasn't a super easy decision for Beau. Still, there were things that both Beau and Dave wanted to do with the site that wasn't easily done with a static site. This project's goal was to transition from the old static site to a new Symfony 4 application. Bonus points for not disrupting the podcast players by messing up the GUID or the RSS feed.

Sculpin

2013

PHP

CLI

Symfony

Open Source Software

Static site generator

Sculpin is a static site generator written in PHP. It converts Markdown files, Twig templates and standard HTML into a static HTML site that can be easily deployed. I started this project but have since turned it over to another team to maintain.