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New York, Ny, Us

Modernize, secure, and transition a PHP Laravel monolith with a long pre-Laravel history, thus ensuring the application passed security reviews and became a stable and more performant base for upgrades and security updates, enabling the company to maintain HIPAA compliance and avoid penalties as well as facilitating integration with external clients and partners. Additionally, I improved testability and worked closely with QA to ensure more reliable deployments as well as improving the developer experience to enable easier ramping up of new contributors. Integrated the monolith via APIs to enable external and internal integration via Apigee to further harden the application and its peers as well as integrated centralized authentication via Auth0 to better manage access across the suite of products.

Washington, Dc, Us

Modernize legacy PHP applications, implement best practices, and build new features with unit and integration testing and continuous integration. Develop Python applications using Django, Ansible, Vagrant on AWS and Heroku.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Co-founder, product guy, user experience worrier, developer, and strategist for a consultancy and product company comprised of experienced developers, with special expertise in modern web application development and scalability. Also publishers of php[architect] Magazine, books, training, and PHP-related conferences.

San Diego, California, Us

Manage overall operation with special attention to training.

Development, product direction, and strategy for a stealth-mode startup bringing you a new way to look at your career.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Lead a team of programmers to deliver content management and internet applications for non-profit and government policy organizations.• Worked with HR to recruit developers at various skill levels• Managed team of 5 developers• Developed coding standard• Responsible for leading tech coordination meetings with CTO and system administrators• Collaborated with manager of project management to improve project delivery process and manage cross-team personnel issues• Backend, multi-tier programming for dynamic Web applicationsFrontend HTML/CSS/Javascript development including AJAX technologies• Technical manager for object-oriented open source PHP CMS (Syntax CMS), responsible for collecting feature requests, gatekeeper for code changes, maintaining relationship with broader Open Source Software (OSS) community• Technical Lead for several projects, including USAID-funded project incorporating Arabic full-text search.• Extensive Internet strategy work for clients including requirements definition, analysis of comparative Web sites, facilitating group strategy sessions, and assessing technical requirements for interoperability with legacy financial and customer management systems• Managed transition from in-house CMS to Drupal.

Led technical development and small development teams to configure and program custom CMS functionality for nonprofit and government client websites. Maintained and led open source in-house CMS.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led development or assisted in programming of nonprofit and government CMS implementations using PHP.

Developed custom video placement solutions for client websites.

Arlington, Va, Us

Developed and maintained several government websites in Perl and using COTS bulletin board and chat systems.

Ma, International Studies

Dyplom, Polish Language And Culture Studies

Ba, Music