Oliver Earl
PHP Developer at Overwolf
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Earl, known as Ollie, is a UK-based PHP developer with a decade of experience delivering backend systems, payments features, and high-performance web applications. He currently serves as a PHP Developer at Overwolf, building features for Tebex, triaging complex bugs, enforcing security and performance best practices, and championing thorough testing and code quality through reviews. In previous roles at Stickee, he refactored automated data distribution for a major international client and led development of Asda Mobile’s online presence, BNPL PayPal Finance, and OSS projects such as Canary, Raven, and a Spatie/Activity-Log-inspired tool. He also contributes to Nightline Association as a volunteer software developer, leading the GPG module integration to streamline accreditation against good-practice guidelines and coordinating onboarding for new volunteers in a distributed environment. Oliver’s background includes teaching and mentoring roles at Aberystwyth University and Arden Academy, which informs his collaborative approach and emphasis on accessible, well-tested code. Based in Birmingham, he blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional collaboration to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable software while bridging development, operations, and end-user needs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science with German, 1st, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science with German, 1st at Aberystwyth UniversityA-Levels, Computer Science, Business Studies, German, English, A-Levels, Computer Science, Business Studies, German, English at The Sixth Form College, SolihullGCSEs, Higher Diploma of IT, German, Triple-Award Science, GCSEs, Higher Diploma of IT, German, Triple-Award Science at Light Hall SchoolLevel 3 Apprenticeship, IT Software Web & Telecoms Professionals, Level 3 Apprenticeship, IT Software Web & Telecoms Professionals at Baltic ApprenticeshipsPostgraduate Certificate in Education, Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Post-Compulsory Education and Training at Birmingham City University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
php8
railways8
ats8
journal8
jquery-mobile8
orchid7
webapp7
php-77
jquery7
laravel-57
chrome-plugin6
laravel6
artisan6
cordova6
linting5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oliverearl/fixed-array-functions
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Laravel helper methods for working with high performance SPL fixed arrays. (Requires PHP 8.3)
Contributions:13 releases, 26 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 11 months
php-8phparraysrequiresperformance
oliverearl/php-hashnode
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
A framework-agnostic, ORM library for interacting and retrieving data from the Hashnode GraphQL API. (Requires PHP 7.4)
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 107 commits in 1 year 6 months
hashnode-apiapigraphql-apiagnosticphp
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