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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Splashlight is a leading visual content creation company specialising in the production of photography and video for fashion and retail brands.----------------------------------- Maintain, resolve issues and develop new features for their inventory management system built with PHP, React and MySql- Refactor legacy code with more secure and scalable techniques- Work with AWS services (S3, CodeDeploy etc)- Collaborate with various levels of stake-holders to discuss business requirements- Experience in Agile development: sprints, sprint planning and hosting retrospectives- Create/manage JIRA tickets - analyse business requirements, estimating, planning and documenting- Implemented a PHP testing framework for e2e acceptance testing- Provide mentorship for junior developers through PR code reviews and pair programming- Use Confluence to write detailed documentation for various modules outlining coding patterns as well as technical guides

Toronto, Canada Area

Peeks Social is a live-streaming social network app with crowdfunding and peer-to-peer payments.------------------------------------------------- Developed REST APIs with PHP and OpenAPI Spec using Swagger, PostgresDB. - Single-handedly developed an API for use with Berkeley Payments' SOAP platform. This increased the convenience, speed and efficiency at which users had access to their funds by being able to withdraw money from the app onto their own virtual credit card.- Experienced with working with other payment gateways: Azira ACH, Paypal, Moneris- Familiar with PCI-compliance requirements.- Provided mentorship for junior developers through PR code reviews and pair programming- Practiced TDD as part of the CI/CD workflow

Ontario, Canada

Red Label Holdings is the parent company of leading travel industry players redtag.ca, itravel2000.com, flights.ca and cruises.ca.---------------------------------------------- Played a major role in the overhaul of the redtag.ca website by helping to refactor, restructure and roll out the underlying PHP backend.- Lead developer for the ‘Hotels’ products on redtag.ca and itravel2000.com- Worked deeply with consuming APIs- Responsible for 90% of the backend redevelopment of the itravel2000.com website using Laravel, revamping the product from outdated legacy code. This greatly improved the site’s useability, efficiency and speed while providing more content and value to users.

Ontario, Canada

IFS Global Technologies is a software company servicing the financial sector--------------------------------------------------------- Developed modules for the flagship web application. These modules consumed SOAP & REST web services (XML and JSON-based) to handle payments and various financial data.- Took charge of the implementation of the Moneris payment gateway for eCommerce - frontend to backend. - Developed an administrative dashboard system for the application.- Coordinated with high-level project stakeholders to design and discuss application requirements and make suggestions for improvement.

Kingston, Jamaica

Digicel is a leading telecommunications service provider in the Caribbean, specialising in mobile communications.------------------------------------------------------- Analysed technical requirements documents to design and build out text-based SMS mobile games- Developed APIs that communicate with the mobile devices and the SMS gateway- Maintained a Github repository of source code for each microservice

Kingston, Jamaica

Web Development Agency---------------------------------------------- Coordinated meetings with both technical and non-technical clients (including Managers, Supervisors, CTOs and CEOs) to gather business requirements for use in website and web application development. - Analyzed business operations and procedures to make recommendations and in some cases improving efficiency by as much as 50% by totally automating manual operations via web applications.- Responsible for researching and applying new techniques in PHP coding standards while paying close attention to best practices in web application security for mitigating SQL Injection, XSS etc.- Extensive experience with debugging and optimizing legacy PHP code and optimizing SQL queries for speed and efficiency. - Created comprehensive user manuals and system documentation for web applications.- Responsible for Linux and Windows server administration on 3rd party hosting providers.