Software experience and services

Coding

Extensive experience in C, Perl, PHP and Javascript (8+ years). I've recently adopted Python as my prefered language (1+ year). Plus HTML5 and CSS3.

Performance

Eliminating bottlenecks in most parts of the stack — from libevent, to reverse proxies, caching servers, optimised SQL, CDN's all up to CSS sprites.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

All SEO from the technical side, including building quality links, auto submitters, content generators, drop catchers and scrappers.

Lifecycle

Including project leadership, generating specifications, requirements and timeframes, managing other suppliers, clear reporting.

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Previous Work

Screenshot of BullionByPost.co.uk

Lead Developer

Within three years, BullionByPost.co.uk has become the single largest retailer for investment metals in the UK. Via some very demanding projects almost from the day they started, I’ve helped them get there.

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Screenshot of DiscountVouchers.co.uk

Lead Developer

This started off as a WordPress blog with fewer than a thousand hits a day. Acting as Lead Developer, after 18 months, we had over 50,000 unique visitors a day and three million subscribers. It’s now the second largest discount voucher website in the UK by visitor numbers.

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Screenshot of Active-High.co.uk

Lead Developer / Owner

A network of around 30 free and paid-for press release websites. These were built to keep dropped domain names we had caught active while we worked out how to make something of them.

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