Jo Carter

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ABOUT ME

Experienced PHP and Symfony Software Engineer and Mentor. TDD/ BDD/ DDD. Accessiblity focused.

Experienced and organised team lead, technical architect, software engineer, tester, developer, mentor and coach with knowledge of Agile methodologies, Continuous Integration, and test-driven and domain-driven development for websites and APIs. Expertise in PHP, with a preference for the Symfony framework; comfortable as a full-stack developer, with a focus on UX and Accessibility. Specialisation in code gardening (refactoring, pruning, maintenance, documentation, automation). Adept at picking up new concepts and skills quickly, and eager to learn new things.

English

London (+01:00)

Joined April 2019

EXPERTISE

Symfony

11 years experience

Been working with Symfony since version 1.0, and every version since. Currently rewriting my own personal projects in Symfony 4 as an ex...

Been working with Symfony since version 1.0, and every version since. Currently rewriting my own personal projects in Symfony 4 as an exercise. Big fan of the framework.

Symfony 3 Symfony 2 Doctrine Symfony4 Symfony 1

PHP

20 years experience

Been working with PHP since PHP4. Very excited with PHP7 and all the improvements that have been made to the language.

Server-Side Development PHP 7 Phpunit

Server-Side Development PHP 7 Phpunit Debugging MySQL LEMP Stack Web Development Symfony PHPSpec VS Code

Test driven development

8 years experience

Huge proponent of testing (TDD, BDD, DDD). Used various technologies including (but not limited to): PHPSpec, PHPUnit, Behat (and Gherkin...

Huge proponent of testing (TDD, BDD, DDD). Used various technologies including (but not limited to): PHPSpec, PHPUnit, Behat (and Gherkin), Cypress, Nightwatch, Chai and Mocha.

Nightwatch.js Phpunit Chai

Nightwatch.js Phpunit Chai Cypress Behat Gherkin PHPSpec Unit Testing Integration Testing Modelling by example

BDD

6 years experience

I work with a mixture of TDD/DDD/BDD

Behat Gherkin Modelling by example

Domain-Driven Design

6 years experience

I work with a mixture of TDD/DDD/BDD

Domain dictionaryModelling by example

HTML/CSS

20 years experience

Been working with HTML/CSS from the very start of me learning to code. I coded my first site in plain text, though I've migrated to usin...

Been working with HTML/CSS from the very start of me learning to code. I coded my first site in plain text, though I've migrated to using a code editor these days.

CSS3 HTML5 XHTML

CSS3 HTML5 XHTML Accessibility

JavaScript

12 years experience

Started working with JavaScript in the era of IE6, so I've done a great deal of blind debugging. Not an expert in any JS framework, but ...

Started working with JavaScript in the era of IE6, so I've done a great deal of blind debugging. Not an expert in any JS framework, but I can hold my own.

AJAX Webpack

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

mootools-autocompleter

This AutoCompleter script for MooTools (by Harald Kirschner - http://digitarald.de/project/autocompleter/) provides the functionality for text suggestion and completion. It features different data-sources (local, JSON or XML), a variety of user interactions, custom formatting, multiple selection, animations and much more.

JavaScript

sfCmsPlugin

A simple CMS with dynamic routing (managed via a nested set), pages and listing with content templates

PHP

Community Posts

Modelling by Example: A Shared Understanding

Modelling by Example combines some of the concepts of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Domain Driven Design (DDD).

EMPLOYMENTS

Consultant Senior PHP Developer at J Sainsbury

Daemon Solutions

2019-05-01-Present

---- Daemon Solutions is a technology consultancy that puts people first. We believe that technology can help people to do better work ...

---- Daemon Solutions is a technology consultancy that puts people first. We believe that technology can help people to do better work in the world. Making that happen for business isn’t always easy, we’ll help you to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.

PHP

Phpunit

Test driven development

PHP

Phpunit

Test driven development

Symfony

Docker

React

Kubernetes

Yarn

Nightwatch.js

Freelance PHP Developer

Babylon Health

2019-03-01-2019-04-01

Brought in to upgrade a legacy Symfony 2 application for long term support. Also did some code gardening.

PHP

Continuous Integration

Phpunit

PHP

Continuous Integration

Phpunit

Test driven development

Symfony

Docker

Kubernetes

Freelance Senior Software Developer

Wellcome Trust

2018-03-01-2018-12-01

Part of the team responsible for the development of the Explorify website (science for primary school teachers). During my time there we ...

Part of the team responsible for the development of the Explorify website (science for primary school teachers). During my time there we refactored the majority of the codebase (PHP, frontend and the database), added additional automation for testing and QA, and upgraded the site from Symfony 3 to 4. Day to day work included code reviews, adding new features, cleaning data, maintenance and as much code gardening as I could squeeze in. I also contributed back to several of the open source bundles we used. I was brought in as a full stack developer, so I also worked with the team on adding automated testing to the frontend using Chai, Mocha, Cypress and Nightwatch (with Browserstack); and helped refactor the frontend code (with an emphasis on accessibly and UX) and developed new features (using Webpack, Javascript and SCSS/CSS). We also added in a stats dashboard, split testing (A/B), tracking and monitoring so we could see how our new features improved the user experience.

HTML/CSS

PHP

MySQL

HTML/CSS

PHP

MySQL

Phpunit

Accessibility

Test driven development

Symfony

Full Stack

JavaScript

Webpack

PROJECTS

ExplorifyView Project

Wellcome Trust

2018

During my time on Explorify we refactored the majority of the codebase (PHP, frontend and the database), added additional automation for...

During my time on Explorify we refactored the majority of the codebase (PHP, frontend and the database), added additional automation for testing and QA, and upgraded the site from Symfony 3 to 4. Day to day work included code reviews, adding new features, cleaning data, maintenance and as much code gardening as I could squeeze in. I also contributed back to several of the open source bundles we used. I was brought in as a full stack developer, so I also worked with the team on adding automated testing to the frontend using Chai, Mocha, Cypress and Nightwatch (with Browserstack); and helped refactor the frontend code (with an emphasis on accessibly and UX) and developed new features (using Webpack, Javascript and SCSS/CSS). We also added in a stats dashboard, split testing (A/B), tracking and monitoring so we could see how our new features improved the user experience.

HTML/CSS

PHP

MySQL

HTML/CSS

PHP

MySQL

Phpunit

Accessibility

Test driven development

Symfony

Full Stack

JavaScript

Webpack