Nick Pinansky

Nick Pinansky

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19 years in LAMP land, emphasis on refactoring and deep debugging
19 years in LAMP land, emphasis on refactoring and deep debugging

I am a full stack LAMP dev with 19 years experience. I have spent most of my career in refactoring large legacy code bases into well structured, extensible and test covered codebases. I take procedural php4 spaghetti code and form it into microservice, framework'd OOP applications which are tested and testable with minimal downtime. I have extensive experience in mentoring and teaching as well. My passion has always been in teaching and mentoring. I also LOVE refactoring and maintenance which I consider the "dark arts" of development because they are rarely given much as much attention. as they deserve.

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)
Joined January 2018
EXPERTISE
18 years experience
Have worked from jr dev up to project lead and every job in between. Most experience in refactoring large legacy systems into well struct...
Have worked from jr dev up to project lead and every job in between. Most experience in refactoring large legacy systems into well structured and tested code, deep debugging and maintenance programming. Experience from 4.0 to 7.1 I have spent much of my career mentoring junior devs, my first job in software was a programming teacher for children. I have run many internal "career development" workshops for novice and experienced dev s to "level up" Scored in the Top 10% on PHP certification test on Upwork (https://www.upwork.com/ab/tests/exam/16624220)
19 years experience
I have spent 19 years mastering the dark art of Perl development. I know how to write well structured and well tested code in Perl while ...
I have spent 19 years mastering the dark art of Perl development. I know how to write well structured and well tested code in Perl while also taking advantage of its functional/lisp-like features which provide its biggest advantages in productivity and expressiveness. I also know many of the modern packages like Moose, Moo and modern framworks like Catalyist and Dancer. I was mentored by one of Moose's core developers. I have worked as Junior , Mid, and Senior dev in Perl I have also taught many career development classes to help novice Perl programmers "level up" their skills. My main experience is in large scale refactoring and deep debugging.

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EMPLOYMENTS
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Project Lead
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Lead a greenfield rewrite of a large benefits administration system. Did all the hiring, requirements, architecture , developed best prac...
Lead a greenfield rewrite of a large benefits administration system. Did all the hiring, requirements, architecture , developed best practices and planned/assigned work. also worked as a developer doing much of the dev work
MySQL
React
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MySQL
React
Symfony 2
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Sr Developer
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Worked as sr. dev/ team lead. Main job was maintaining and refactoring a large PHP4 app (with register globals enabled!) into PHP7. Refactored procedural code to OOP and implemented a framework, unit tests and DIC. Trrained junior staff on best practices, OOP and testing. Implemented angular-based web 2.0 frontend and microservice backend. Dealt with HIPAA compliance
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