Matt Campbell

I am a highly dedicated software developer with 5 years commercial development experience working with PHP (Laravel) and in more recent years with tools like Ansible, Docker and Terraform. I graduated with a 2:1 in BSc (Hons) Computing at Plymouth University in September 2013 and started my professional career in 2014.

Profile

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbally.
• Good people skills and can develop great working relationships.
• A real believer of "do something manually twice, automate via scripting, if you can".
• I believe I possess a positive attitude and have a passion for expanding my knowledge.
• Experience working in an Agile team environment, with daily standups, sprint planning/refinement and retrospective meetings.

Education

2011-2013

BSc, Computing; University of Plymouth (2:1)

• Final year project (First Class Grade): PHP based web application – tool for communication between project group peers
• Group project (First Class Grade) – As a group we developed a multi-platform photo sharing system.

2009-2011

HND, Computing (Level 5); Uxbridge College

GCSE English (B); Uxbridge College

CCNA Networking Academy - Semesters 1 & 2 (Pass); Uxbridge College

GCSE Maths A.

Received Higher Education award - presented at the Uxbridge College awards ceremony 2011.

Experience

2015-present

Shopworks - Developer

Throughout my time at Shopworks I have helped on-board several new developers into the team.

• Involved with undertaking code review for other team members.
• Vast experience with combining legacy code written in CodeIgniter with a more OOP style in Laravel.
• Comfortable with a TDD approach to solving problems.
• Developed skills with automated deployments and DevOps with tools like Ansible, Terraform and Docker.
• Comfortable with new site setup and server administration, from server setup using Ansible, or things like SSL renewal.
• Very comfortable with Git and advanced features like pull request workflows, rebasing and following recommended commit message guidelines.
• Experience and passion for improving internal wiki documentation, which you can read about here.

2014-2015

YourParkingSpace - Developer

Starting as an intern for 3 months in my first development role, I was offered a permanent role after a very successful internship. Working in a small team, I established myself as a valued member of a close-knit team. Working with another co-developer, my duties included making day to day improvements to the company web application, fixing bugs and adding new features.

• Day-to-day bug fixing, and implementing new feature requests.
• Git experience improved, working in a pull request development cycle.
• Always part of technical discussions within the team for on-going improvements.
• Involved with migration to SSL site version.
• Implementation of Stripe payments API within an instant payment system.

Technical Experience

Open Source

• Git Review - Creator and maintainer. Run tools like PHP-CS-Fixer and PHPCS on only the changed files on a commit or entire selection of commits on a Git branch. This is extemely useful for large projects, where the focus should be on the changes made in an MR/PR, rather than unrelated code style issues that have crept into master, causing a topic branch to fail.
• Ansible role for installing PhpStorm, which I developed to help automate the installation of new versions.
• Personal blog and resume are written in markdown and easily converted to multiple formats (HTML, Pdf, Doc)

Programming Languages / Skills

PHP: Very confident with this language and the new features available in PHP 7.

Ansible: A lot of experience with this tool in terms of provisioning and using it for deployments.

Docker: I am aware of the importance of containers, and the role this can play with making scalable applications.

Basic knowledge of VueJS, React JS

• Laravel, CodeIgniter OOP, PHP 7, TDD, MySQL, DNS, Virtual Host, Apache, Ansible, Deployer PHP, Markdown, Ubuntu, CentOS, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Wikis, Bash, Git, Git Hooks

matthewcampbell508@gmail.com Uxbridge, Middlesex
https://mcampbell508.github.io