Respected and personable programmer, analyst, and leader. Film and cinema industry.Expertise in architecting and building complex web applications for business, that are:• responsive• intuitive• reliable—FOCUS & FITOrganisations:- start-ups or SMEs- chains or service providers- ambitious non-FinTech businesses who are keen to grow and innovateRoles:- Seeking: project work (business analysis, software development), co-founding opportunities- Previous: department head, product ownerEngagement types:- day rate: contractor (either fixed term or less formal contracts), project work, feature work- monthly rate: design, build, host and maintain under the Software-as-a-Service model—TECHLanguages: - expert: PHP 8, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript and jQuery, MySQL- experienced: React, Next.js, TypeScript, AQL- intermediate: Node.js, PythonPrinciples and standards:- GraphQL, REST, and SOAP APIs- Microservices- High availability- Scalability- OWASP- SOLID, clean codeDevOps: - AWS: EC2 + networking + security groups, RDS, SQS, SES, Route 53, ELB, ECR + ECS, CodeDeploy, etc- Linux: mainly Red Hat derivatives including RHEL and Amazon Linux- Docker, Apache, nginx, ExpressDBMS: MySQL 8, Postgres, ArangoDB multi-model graph databaseFrameworks: Django, Slim, Socket.io, Bootstrap, Foundation, Handlebars, Underscore, Twig, plus earlier experience with Laravel + Eloquent, and CodeIgniterProviders: PayPal, Stripe, SendGrid, SentryProcess: Agile, Scrum, TDD; with a dose of realism—ACHIEVEMENTS• Assembly and management of a stable, 16 person development team• Development of LANsat, the cinema content platform installed across the world, from its first prototype through to today's indispensable product• Conception and construction of CentralReporting, a data management suite for cinema circuits• Founder and lead developer of QueerAttitude.com (QA), one of the web's earliest and most influential LGBT youth communities, dating from 1999 and finally closing in 2014.