Leading provider of professional templates and extensions, and Gantry framework for Joomla!, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and PHPBB3.
Senior Web Developer
Served as extension developer for multiple web applications, responsible for maintaining existing code base, participated all aspects of the agile project development life cycle. Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of open source web applications through project participation and task completion. Served as team member responsible for maintaining compatibility; for multiple platforms, versions and third party integrations on development of cutting edge, platform independent extensions. Extensive knowledge of integration, back end and front end programming, using commercial and open source toolset (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Mac OSX and others i.e MAMP). Served as the primary web developer on compression and caching extension project, implemented unique solutions to solve common issues resulting in a increase in page load speed and performance, above that of competitors. Improved and maintained over 40 web software application extensions for multiple platforms including; Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, PHPBB3, Magento in PHP 5 and MySQL using MVC and OOP, with compatibility across multiple browsers and operating systems. Served as developer in charge of integrations while maintaining compatibility for multiple platforms, versions and third party integrations for 2 premiere large scale extensions. Development of extensions using APIs; Google, Yahoo, YQL, Twitter, Wunderground for multiple platforms including; Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, PHPBB3, Magento. Collaborated with the global team to plan new development projects and upgrade and deploy existing products. Collaborated with testers and moderators to review test cases and track feature bugs. Successfully managed work flow and projects by leveraging ticketing system which included the verification testing and the assignment of tickets to developers. Responsible for migrating multiple extensions from one platform to another, including custom development of complicated database queries and OOP code for reuse in multiple projects. Gained experience with Symphony, Doctrine, Maven, and Jenkins.
RokGallery is a ground-up revolutionary gallery extension, developed to be hugely flexible, versatile and user friendly. The system itself is built on a custom tag-based architecture with the ability to have multiple tag-based galleries. RokGallery uses design and concepts that have been traditionally reserved for platform-native applications. RokGallery is available both as a Joomla! extension and as a WordPress plugin.
I worked on the Joomla! version of this extension with other members of the Rocket Theme team and was responsible for writing the Joomla! module and porting the entire extension set to WordPress.
The popular AEC (Account Expiration Control) Component for Joomla! CMS, a membership and subscription manager.
Web Developer & Technical Support
Served as a senior member of the PHP Development Team developing for new and existing web applications, including commercial Internet-based travel aggregator and distribution system. Utilizing in-depth knowledge of PHP 5, and OOP. Activities: Front-end development and back-end development with PHP, JavaScript, and Smarty, using open source and commercial toolset (PHP, MySQL, Apache, Windows and others (i.e WAMP) . Fulfilled new feature requests and meeting customer requirements for existing web application quickly and efficiently, while collaborated with team members in code reviews and quality assurance testers to insure code integrity. Assisted in the Development of new Corporate WordPress site.Continue Reading
Akeeba Ltd specialises in building Open Source PHP software for backing up and securing web sites. Our goal is producing the highest quality PHP software, always honouring the core values of Freedom of choice and access to the software’s source code. We go even further than that, by providing the most thorough documentation you’ve seen in PHP software and making it available to everyone.
Technical Support Specialist
Provided technical support for all Akeeba Products, including installation, upgrades, and configuration.
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A professional template and extension provider for Joomla! CMS, built on the Zen Grid Framework.
Senior Web Developer
Lead developer in charge of all software development. Maintained in-depth knowledge of distribution platform guidelines and capabilities to guide development. Designed, planned and managed software development for over 20 custom extensions for Joomla!, using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX in MVC OOP. Re-engineered Template Framework including a rewrite of all existing JavaScript and backend UI design. Authored library extension to support all company extensions. Transitioned project management and SVN from a combination of Apollo and Basecamp over to a united one on Assembla.
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