Hugh Downer

Resume

• Work experience

• April 2017 - Present

  Senior Web Developer, Loadsys Solutions, Remote position

  Senior Developer, part of a remotely distributed group of senior and lead developers working with multiple clients, across a broad range of problem domains and disciplines.
  
  Working on a wide range of solutions including SaaS platforms, commercial sites and marketing sites, built upon Laravel and CakePHP.
  
  Both implementing codebases from scratch and inheriting problem, legacy codebases which require unit and integration testing, security updates, refactoring and documentation.
  
  Juggling multiple clients, responding in a timely fashion to requests and accurately scoping new client requests into features.

• 2016 - April 2017

  Web Developer, Crew, Remote position

  Developing and maintaining the Crew marketplace codebase as part of a remotely distributed team.
  Working with Customer Support to deliver the best experience for customers in the marketplace as well as freelancers who use the platform daily for their livelihood.
  
  A main focus of my time at Crew has been increasing test coverage and speed, as well as ensuring any new code added has appropriate testing in place and continues to raise the overall coverage of the codebase.
  Integrating with a variety of different APIs such as: GitHub, Dribbble, Twilio, SendGrid as well as implementing our own API both for internal and public use.
  
  Creating custom themes and plugins when porting existing sites into WordPress.
  
  I've also contributed to Crew's blog.

• 2013 - 2016

  Web Developer, Data Harvesting, Poole, Dorset

  Creating and maintaining a SAAS codebase for the UK further and higher education industry.
  Writing and maintaining APIs and integrations to partner systems as well as opening our system for integration.
  Refactoring prototype and legacy code to modern PHP standards.
  Created and maintained API endpoints for the company's iOS app offering; built in Laravel

• 2009 - 2013

  Web Developer, The Marketing Bureau, Poole, Dorset

  Working in an intimate and busy digital marketing agency creating websites and solutions, carrying out email broadcast campaigns and training a Junior Developer role. Managing multiple jobs at once whilst maintaining a high quality of work and close attention to detail.

• 2007 - 2009

  Application Developer, Airborne Interactive, Chichester, West Sussex

  Medium sized business based in Chichester, UK and California, USA. Responsible for creating in flight entertainment software for commercial flights. Duties included creating and testing software to written specifications. Attending on site, typically in the US, the final stages of the project with the client to fine tune the application.

• 2006 - 2007

  Infrastructure Team, Oracle Corporation EMEA, Dublin, Ireland

  Placement year during university studies in Dublin, Ireland. I received the Student of the Year award for 2006. Responsibilities included improving processes through automation by writing Perl and Shell scripts, providing training for the students replacing my role – as well as employees new to the process, for example – companies recently acquired by Oracle.

• Education

• 2003 - 2007

  2:1 Business Information Technology (Hons) BSc

  Studied at Bournemouth University on the south coast of the UK.