Luke Watts

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ABOUT ME

Senior Software Engineer (Laravel, React, MySQL)

Hi! I'm a Senior Full-stack web developer from Ireland. I have 10+ years of experience with PHP and MySQL. I use Laravel, React, MySQL, and Tailwind daily at work.

I wrote a book on Sass for Packt Publishing, so I am very good at giving clear troubleshooting instructions.

I'm also very good at refactoring complex code into simple clear to read code that explains itself through clear, descriptive naming of functions, variables, and methods

English

Dublin (+01:00)

Joined February 2017

EXPERTISE

PHP

10 years experience

I am very familiar with all of the Symfony Components both for use individually and their use in MVC frameworks such as Laravel and Silex...

I am very familiar with all of the Symfony Components both for use individually and their use in MVC frameworks such as Laravel and Silex. I code using OOP to meet as many PSR-FIG standards as possible. At the very least PSR-2 (Code Standard) and PSR-4 (Namespaces). I have built and published a handful of Composer packages and contributed to numerous open-source projects on GitHub.

Symfony MVC Framework PHP Laravel Twig Slim Framework Doctrine Behat Phpunit

MySQL

10 years experience

I'm an Oracle Certified MySQL 5.0 Developer. I believe every server-side application should start with the solid future-proof database s...

I'm an Oracle Certified MySQL 5.0 Developer. I believe every server-side application should start with the solid future-proof database schema design. I can work with complex one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many inner, outer left and right joins, subqueries and the creation of views and triggers.

Trigger UML (Unified Modeling Language)Views

Trigger UML (Unified Modeling Language)Views Joins Database optimizationDatbase administrationPDOOracle Certified DeveloperMariaDB Database

UI design

6 years experience

I have been designing web UI's since 2011. I use Sass and Jade (aka Pug) to build the HTML and CSS. I use build tools such as Gulp and/o...

I have been designing web UI's since 2011. I use Sass and Jade (aka Pug) to build the HTML and CSS. I use build tools such as Gulp and/or Webpack to manage the build process. OOCSS, SMACSS, and Atomic Design are key methodologies used throughout my designs. Accessibility is also important to me. You can see some sample of my work on http://codepen.io/lukewatts

Pug Css flexbox Bootstrap 4

Pug Css flexbox Bootstrap 4 Vue.js Foundation 6 jQuery AJAX Knockout.js Mobile first

React

5 years experience

As a full-stack web developer, I have been using React for more than 5 years to build fast and reliable UIs for large-scale REST API-back...

As a full-stack web developer, I have been using React for more than 5 years to build fast and reliable UIs for large-scale REST API-backed applications (mostly built with Laravel as a backend).

React Hooks React Router Axios

SQL

10 years experience

JavaScript

10 years experience

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EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer

Workvivo

2022-06-01-2023-11-01

In June 2022, I joined Workvivo as a Senior Software Engineer with the Admin
Experience team.

The Admin Experience team...

In June 2022, I joined Workvivo as a Senior Software Engineer with the Admin
Experience team.

The Admin Experience team's main role is building and maintaining the admin/
dashboard areas of the platform where customers manage their organization within
the Workvivo platform on both web and mobile.

I developed full-stack solutions using MySQL, Laravel, AWS, and React from
beginning to end, through Code Review, QA, and release. Using Laravel, I have
worked frequently with Eloquent, Notifications, and Command/Jobs functionality to
create scalable, automated running of background tasks.

Using React, I have created many feature-rich enterprise-level user interfaces, which
have included building full-featured administration areas.

During this time I also wrote many unit tests (PHPUnit and Cypress) for new and
existing features to ensure the code was tested through our GitHub actions before
releasing it to production.

PHP

SQL

Laravel

PHP

SQL

Laravel

React

JavaScript

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Full-stack Web & Automation Developer

Three Ireland

2017-06-01-2022-05-01

In June 2017, I joined Three's "Fusion" development team. Fusion is an internal
application developed in-house for ...

In June 2017, I joined Three's "Fusion" development team. Fusion is an internal
application developed in-house for over a decade. It is built on MySQL and PHP
(CakePHP).

Its main purpose is to integrate over 100 different data sources
(Teradata, MSSQL, Oracle DB and MySQL/MariaDB, AccessDB, SOAP APIs, JSON
APIs) into one common application for all Three Ireland employees to view and
manage customer data in one fast, secure, GDPR compliant application.

PHP

SQL

CakePHP

PHP

SQL

CakePHP

React

JavaScript

Company Founder

AFFINITY4

2014-10-01-2017-02-01

In October of 2014 I started my own web development company, AFFINITY4.
AFFINITY4 was a full-stack end-to-end web design and devel...

In October of 2014 I started my own web development company, AFFINITY4.
AFFINITY4 was a full-stack end-to-end web design and development agency,
handling everything from brand identity, graphic design (logo design, printed
advertising etc.), to fully custom web development (custom Laravel sites or
Wordpress development), as well as server setup, deployment and maintenance.

During this time, I also wrote a 300 page web design book called "Mastering Sass"
(an advanced guide to CSS-preprocessor Sass and Compass) for Packt Publishing.

PHP

SQL

JavaScript

PHP

SQL

JavaScript