Experience
Allwebcafe
Berwyn, PA
September 2014 - July 2015
- Maintained several client code bases from legacy PHP to Codeignitor, Expression Engine, and Processwire CMSs
- Migrated clients from single dedicated servers to AWS. Sites are setup on EC2 instances, with Cloudwatch logging, CDN, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, and autoscaling. Many sites saw 50%+ in performance/speed
- Established auto staging and push button deployment through custom CRM
- Setup development environment for the team using Vagrant/PuPHPet
- Performed site audits for SEO and performance gains
- Lead developer for IDR Brandshare/Survey Tool (Codeigniter) and PATravel.com (Processwire) websites
Instamour
Philadelphia, PA
February 2014 - Current
- CTO - Managed IOS and Android teams, worked with other teams and interns for web projects
- Built custom API using PHP. All frontend applications (IOS, Android, Admin, Web App) communicates through one endpoint
- System scaled with 140k+ user base. System never crashed at its peak, with 400+ online sessions
- AWS setup with EC2, RDS MySQL, ElastiCache, S3, Cloudwatch logging
- Integrations with Facebook Oath, AWS PHP SDK, SNS push notifications, Instagram
EZTees
Philadelphia, PA
October 2012 - February 2014
- Develop and maintained several branded ecommerce websites
- Reskinned Rushordertees.com first mobile/responsive site using Bootstrap
- Refactored much of the existing code to work with an existing service and branding
Education
Penn College of Technology
Williamsport, PA
August 2004 - May 2007
- Associates Degree in Computer Science
Proficiencies
- HTML/XHTML/HTML5 pages utilizing CSS 2/3 and follow W3C standards
- PHP/OOP/Frameworks and Mysql DB backend
- Sass, Bootstrap, Foundation
- Javascript, jQuery, Gulp
- Amazon Web Services - EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, IAM, Autoscaling, Cloudwatch
- Nginx, Apache, IIS configuration
- Windows and Linux server administration