Rainy Sundays

Rich Gwilliam's digital shed

BASH

Command line terminals have been about a long time; before, even, 1996. That probably seems arbitrary but I know that because it's when I started using MS-DOS on my dad's 486 PC.

BASH isn't DOS. But it's lasted better, and gets more done these days. It's not optional when you're administrating a Linux server, most of them don't have GUIs installed.

I've been using BASH since May 2012 (13 years).

Engagements using BASH

Senior PHP Developer

ASL Holdings Ltd

May 2012 - Feb 2020

For ASL I developed several long-lived and high volume telemetry systems. These processed large amounts of data and delivered it for rendering in charts and tables on a daily basis.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Photoshop
  • Javascript
  • Jquery
  • API development
  • SQL
  • BASH
  • Linux
  • DataTables
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • FTP
  • Git
  • CICD
  • Technical writing

Contract Senior Full-stack Developer

Eido Healthcare

Feb 2024 - Jun 2024

Successful resurrection of a mothballed legacy Craft CMS project without documentation or input from the original developer; planning and provisioning of AWS infrastructure to support the software based on Docker images.

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • Git
  • NPM
  • Javascript
  • Craft CMS
  • Linux
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Suite
  • Laravel
  • Docker
  • BASH
  • Figma
  • Project planning
  • Ops Development
  • High capacity systems
  • Apache
  • Postman
  • API development
  • Technical writing

Contract Senior Full-stack Developer

STS Commercial

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025

Development of high-precision bespoke analytics and diagnostic modules on a Laravel base to surface opportunities and weaknesses in extremely high-volume, fast moving Fintech data and fine-tune performance for emerging markets. Innovative and intuitive modelling of data, completely revolutionizing how stakeholders analyse performance.

  • Laravel
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • API development
  • Vue
  • Database Migrations
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Docker
  • SQL
  • Figma
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • BASH
  • NPM
  • NodeJS
  • Postman
  • High capacity systems
  • Ops Development
  • Jira
  • MAMP stack admin
  • Technical writing