I've been building enterprise-scale .NET applications for the better part of the past decade. I'm an active member in the .NET community, a contributor to .NET Core's codebase, and my work has been featured on the official .NET Blog and the ASP.NET Community Standup on multiple occasions.

Having spent many years maintaining legacy PHP applications, and updating them to modern standards, I have experience with a wide range of code quality and vintage.

An often-overlooked part of an application's architecture is that of the underlying data structures. Proper normalization and effective indexing can make or break an application's performance, or the performance of the team building it.

Creating an efficient data model, as well as a well-functioning abstraction layer is critical to a codebase's overall longevity. From single-table micro-sites to enterprise systems with millions of objects, I've got your database needs covered!

I've been designing and building web applications for more than a decade, and for the past several years have consistently used mobile-first responsive designs to make sure users on all types of devices have a great experience.

JavaScript is the language of the web (at least until WebAssembly takes over) and so it's critical that devs have a strong grasp on it. I've written web apps using everything from vanilla JS to advanced frameworks to create immersive client-side interactivity.

Performance is paramount. Studies show that faster apps and sites have happier users and higher conversion rates. Algorithmic complexity, network latency, data indexing, and a host of other issues can plague an application's performance.

I've made various parts of apps hundreds of times faster, and I can help you dig up and resolve troublesome bottlenecks, sub-optimal algorithms, or legacy architectures with superior modern equivalents. You might even be able to save some costs on hosting in the process!

Most of my career has been working with legacy code, and during that time I've learned a thing or two about how to get (and keep) things up-to-date. If you're looking at something thinking, "how does this work?", "how did it ever work?", or "how do I make this not terrible?" I can help!

Continuous Integration is more than just a tool: it's a set of practices that help keep your app running smoothly through constant change. I've worked with CI using many different build servers over most of the past decade, and can help you get up-to-speed with a seamless process that ensures you're consistently delivering quality software.

Containers are a great way to isolate your application and create repeatable build and runtime environments. I've been running Docker in production on both small and large apps for the past several years, and have created tools for zero downtime blue-green deployments.

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Steve D.

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Technical skills