Alex Ascherson
Freelance Contract Developer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Ascherson is a senior Laravel and PHP developer with 11 years of professional experience and a track record of leading the delivery of national-scale web applications. As Principal Developer at The Labour Party he managed and maintained 15+ Laravel applications, supervised engineering teams, and built secure data workflows integrating external APIs and analytics for high-volume, sensitive datasets. Now freelancing from Stony Stratford, he combines hands-on backend development with experience in WordPress, Node.js and deployment tooling like Capistrano/Bedrock, bringing projects from concept to production. His background in data journalism and teaching gives him an unusual edge in data-driven product design, investigation-led problem solving, and clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
History and Politics, Imperial History, history and politics of 20th Century, esp contemporary US., History and Politics, Imperial History, history and politics of 20th Century, esp contemporary US. at York UniversityHistory and Politics, History and Politics at ST Pauls School
Github Skills (25)
php8
azure-sql8
laravel7
azure-synapse7
azure7
sql-server6
sql6
azure-sql-edge6
apple-news6
geospatial6
visualization6
twilio5
php-library5
wordpress4
rest4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlexAscherson/Kerbal-Kos-Programming
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
AlexAscherson/final-project
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
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