As the Senior WordPress Developer at Ringier, I am passionate and dedicated to creating scalable & efficient WordPress solutions across our various verticals and brands across the globe. As a key member of the development team, I collaborate remotely with talented professionals from around the globe to deliver high-quality products and services. This role is 100% remote, allowing me to contribute my expertise from anywhere in the world.## Key Responsibilities:- Architected & implemented our WordPress platforms codebase to adhere closely to the 12-factor approach methodology for scalability & maintainability- Develop custom WordPress plugins for in-house and public use (across our different verticals & brands) to meet organisational goals- Integrate WordPress platforms with external APIs - such as Webvitalize.io, Sailthru & OneSignal- Implement all necessary Marketing guidelines to make the platform SEO optimised & G4 framework compliant- Automate (and responsible for) deployment workflows using Bash scripting, Fabric & Jenkins (in progress)- Configure & maintain our various WordPress platforms on WPEngine.com - our primary hosting infrastructure- Provide technical assistance & support to internal and external stakeholders and brands- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm & implement new features- Document processes & best practices using Confluence## Tech Stack & Infrastructure:- Docker/Vagrant/Terminal, PHP FPM, MariaDB, Nginx, Terraform, Fabric, Jenkins- Cloudflare Enterprise, WPEngine, AWS, Datadog, Atlassian products, GitHub- Unit Testing: PestPHP#### PS:As a problem solver and experienced WordPress developer, I continuously seek opportunities to learn and contribute to the success of my organization and clients. I look forward to connecting with fellow professionals in the WordPress community.

As the Senior WordPress Developer at Ringier, I am passionate and dedicated to creating scalable & efficient WordPress solutions across our various verticals and brands across the globe. As a key member of the development team, I collaborate remotely with talented professionals from around the globe to deliver high-quality products and services. This role is 100% remote, allowing me to contribute my expertise from anywhere in the world.## Key Responsibilities:- Architected & implemented our WordPress platforms codebase to adhere closely to the 12-factor approach methodology for scalability & maintainability- Develop custom WordPress plugins for in-house and public use (across our different verticals & brands) to meet organisational goals- Integrate WordPress platforms with external APIs - such as Webvitalize.io, Sailthru & OneSignal- Implement all necessary Marketing guidelines to make the platform SEO optimised & G4 framework compliant- Automate (and responsible for) deployment workflows using Bash scripting, Fabric & Jenkins (in progress)- Configure & maintain our various WordPress platforms on WPEngine.com - our primary hosting infrastructure- Provide technical assistance & support to internal and external stakeholders and brands- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to brainstorm & implement new features- Document processes & best practices using Confluence## Tech Stack & Infrastructure:- Docker/Vagrant/Terminal, PHP FPM, MariaDB, Nginx, Terraform, Fabric, Jenkins- Cloudflare Enterprise, WPEngine, AWS, Datadog, Atlassian products, GitHub- Unit Testing: PestPHP#### PS:As a problem solver and experienced WordPress developer, I continuously seek opportunities to learn and contribute to the success of my organization and clients. I look forward to connecting with fellow professionals in the WordPress community.

Dedicated to championing the PHP community! I curate engaging technical content, conduct insightful interviews with PHP luminaries, and host thought-provoking podcasts. Join me in exploring the vibrant world of PHP development and its talented community.(No income is derived from this platform, this is an initiatives out of pure passion)#CommunityMatters

* Created ecommerce tech team from scratch* Highly involved in business logic / decision making (PS: the domain name Teamonite was my suggestion)* Architected the whole platform:---- Managed whole server infrastructure - literally from A to Z---- Follow a 12-factor approach---- Re-architected my own WordPress workflow - transforming the default WordPress setup to use php-composer as dependency orchestrator for all plugins, themes (child + parent) and custom in-house php libraries with proper autoloading & .ENV setup(see: https://github.com/wkhayrattee/wordpresswithcomposer) to adhere closer to 12-factor---- Laid down the foundation of how the team needs to work---- Performed code review---- Participated in writing code for custom plugins and functionalities---- Performed appraisals---- (Resilience) Made sure that the team & our internal DEV processes can run 100% online, digitally - this was key to our successful launch during the 1st COVID lockdown, during which we created/launched Facemask.mu/Remask within a short 5 days' time.* Internal DEV stack---- Fully automated all our DEV stack using Vagrant/Linux/Docker---- Server tech: PHP FPM / Nginx / Apache / Percona DB / Redis / Memcache---- Terminal-everything - used a flavor of ZSH + Oh-My-ZSH + Brew* Responsible for deployments---- automated deploys using GIT, bash scripts and Ansible---- All my deployments were ATOMIC deploys with ZERO Downtime strategy* Integrations & API* Infrastructure as Code (IoC)---- Started automating server infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible---- All my digitalocean server stuffs was fully automated using Ansible---- My work to automate our Cloudflare setup using Terraform was at 45% complete before I left* In-house Newsletter platform---- Setup {server+codebase+email streams} for our in-house sending of newsletters* Migration from DigitalOcean to Kinsta.com---- Before I left, migrated most of the servers onto the managed host Kinsta

Main tech: PHP, WordPress & Drupal 7/8

Employee ID #1 at Redbox Digital for Mauritius.Been there since Day 1, helped setup almost everything from Scratch and driving the vision of Jonty the founder & CEO. Involved in office decisions, carried out recruitment from all around the globe, trained teamed, delivered presentations for career fairs and was part of the first training batches for Magento v2 movement at the time.I have handled almost everything except the payroll/accounting and Legal stuffs.Have been in touch with so many people across the globe, evangelising for Redbox, conducting awesome interviews and online tests with so many - been a great time.Been a great experience, given the best of myself - Risen Redbox Mauritius high up, no regrets - I wish them more success for 2016++cheers

Initial responsibilities involve setting up the Team for Redbox Digital in MauritiusRecruiting people in the following 3 sections:1) Magento Development2) Quality Assurance / Testing / Support3) System AdministrationAbout RedBox Digital:A leading international Magento Agency - Specialists in designing, developing and supporting sizeable and intricate Ecommerce solutions for global clients. We are a Magento Gold partner and we are the first company in Mauritius to have a Gold Partner status with Magento Ecommerce.

Main tech: PHP & Mobile iOS & Android

Sub-contracted to Accenture from Agileum, to work for NeoPost France (now Quadient) on their Ecommerce Shops powered by Prestashop. Handled shops for all major European branches.

- Sole developer on project, using Prestashop - worked REMOTELY- Hooked Prestashop with SAP CRM Backend so that all orders and stock management were managed by the CRM- Handled all request - direct communication with Quadient Team- Provided my recommendations on their planning- Proactively helped optimisation- Main line of communication whenever an issue regarding payment gateway failures across all Quadient Branches around the World. For example, I resolved a major payment issue with the branch in SwitzerlandNote: NeoPost is now Quadient

Main tech: C#.NET, iOS (Objective C) & PHP

Mauritius branch of the Danish Company FRONTLABCEO: Brian BramstedCTO: Ruvan FernandoMy first professional job and I learned tons from those two awesome Danish people above.