Adam Cooper
Senior Software Developer at Ministry of Justice UK
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Cooper is a senior software developer with 15 years’ experience building resilient web applications and production infrastructure, currently delivering solutions for the UK Ministry of Justice. He blends deep PHP and Linux expertise with modern container-based CI/CD—using Docker, Rancher/Kubernetes and VSTS/Bamboo—to ship reliable services and perform complex server migrations. Comfortable across Laravel, Zend and various CMS platforms, he contributes to open-source PHP CI tools (improving branch filters and build triggers) and has a track record of backend fixes that improve reliability in FastCGI and proxy scenarios. Adam pairs hands-on system administration (Debian/Ubuntu, Ansible, Postfix, Bind9) with an Agile, configuration-as-code mindset, ensuring low downtime for email, DNS and VoIP services. He’s as likely to refactor core request handling in an OSS project as he is to standardise a team’s pipeline, reflecting a pragmatic focus on observable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, 2:1, BSc, Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (23)
fastcgi10
api-rest10
cms10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
api-design10
restful-api10
cil10
bolt10
database-testing10
phpunit10
php10
silex10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dancryer/PHPCI
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
PHPCI is a free and open source continuous integration tool specifically designed for PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on project and build management features. They added a branch filter to the project page and introduced a feature to get known branches. The commits also include changes to the build creation process and updates to the CSS and Javascript files for the CI. These contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the PHP continuous integration tool.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testingphpcontinuousphpci
php-censor/php-censor
Sep 2014 - Oct 2015
PHP Censor is an open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the PHP Censor's functionality through the implementation of a branch filter on the project page and a build trigger. They added the ability for users to view builds from specific branches and created a mechanism to initiate builds. Additionally, the user modified CSS and JavaScript files to improve the display and functionality of the testing plugins. They also reverted a CSS change that was made in error.
continuous-testingintegration-serverdatabase-testingphp-censortesting
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