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Rich Gwilliam Full Stack Developer
Rich is a full stack developer with a love of building cool stuff with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, Linux, and all kinds of open source tech.
He's all about getting stuff done and learning new things to do it right.
Give him money and he'll probably do it for you, he's nice like that.
- Location
- Sheffield, UK
- rich.gwilliam@gmail.com
- Website
- Look up
PHP
PHP's pretty long in the tooth at this stage but it's propping up such a large portion of the internet that it's going nowhere for the time being.
I've been working with it for nigh on two decades now and plenty of people have longer under their belt so it's fair to say we've all had our time to develop our criticisms but the truth is it's a fully-functioned language with an extremely healthy ecosystem and, to my chagrin, there's plenty of PHP developers about, of varying competence.
I've used legacy PHP 5.6 to resurrect dead clients' projects (the project was dead, the client was fine) and developed cutting-edge APIs and platforms on PHP 8.
Great. Now I have to update this when there's a new version out.
I've been using PHP since May 2007 (18 years).
Engagements using PHP
Web Developer
Pontin's Holidays
May 2007 - Jan 2008- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- PHP
- Wordpress
- Drupal
Web Developer
Russell Grant Astrology Limited
Jan 2008 - Nov 2008- HTML
- PHP
- CSS
- Photoshop
- Javascript
- Drupal
Senior Web Developer
Vivedia
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021At Vivedia I worked on high-volume API systems providing on-demand streaming video to customers. As a personal project, I updated internal systems to greatly improve the efficiency of services supporting the vital ops team.
- PHP
- Laravel
- Vue
- Agile
- API development
- DataTables
- Ops Development
- Git
- Jira
- Project planning
- CICD
Senior Software Developer
Patchworks
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022- Git
- PHP
- API development
- Ops Development
- Linux
- Docker
- High capacity systems
- NPM
- NodeJS
- Jira
Full-stack Developer / Devops Engineer
Hidden
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023At Hidden, I filled the role of an API Developer as well as a Devops Engineer. I updated and expanded existing legacy code to run on AWS Lambda functions for increased efficiency, and created Jenkins build servers for the Unity development team.
- HTML
- Vue
- CSS
- Javascript
- Typescript
- LAMP Stack Admin
- Linux
- Agile
- Ops Development
- Git
- PHP
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3 Buckets
- Amazon Lambda Functions
- AWS Suite
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon Cloudflare
- Postman
- API development
- High capacity systems
- Stable Diffusion
- Figma
- FTP
- Git
- Phinx
- Database Migrations
- Jira
- Project planning
- CICD
- Jenkins
- Technical writing
- Generative AI
Contract Senior Full-stack Developer
Eido Healthcare
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024Successful 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
Polygon
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024Maintenance and upgrade of a legacy native PHP 5.6 API with massive data sets to provide new functionality for clients both inside and outside the company.
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- API development
- Postman
- Vue
- Apache
- Database Migrations
- Agile
- Git
- SQL
- NPM
- Jira
- CICD
Contract Senior Full-stack Developer
STS Commercial
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025Development 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