Andrew Collington
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Learning Pool
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Collington is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20-year background in web development and DevOps, now focused on bridging developers and operations to streamline workflows and modernize infrastructure. He has led large-scale migrations (notably PHP 5.6→7.3→8.x), built developer tooling that spins up full local stacks across PHP, Python and Node, and engineered optimisations that significantly reduced AWS network costs and stabilized core event routing. A pragmatic leader and former team lead, he combines line management and delivery experience with deep technical craft—creating CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions, backup and auditing tools, and production image pipelines for Fargate. He contributes open-source work such as a refactored PHP OPcache GUI and holds Zend and AWS AI Practitioner certifications, reflecting both legacy expertise and modern cloud fluency. Based in Greater Brighton, he’s known for turning operational pain points into documented, automatable solutions that accelerate developer velocity.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, BSc, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (15)
php10
windows-gui10
javascript9
css8
html8
react8
rss6
formula6
search-engine6
jquery-ui6
phpexcel6
tagit6
jquery6
coordinates6
phpunit4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
amnuts/opcache-gui
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
A clean, effective and responsive interface for Zend OPcache
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 2 reviews, 111 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of a PHP-based OPcache GUI. Their work involved refactoring the user interface by removing jQueryUI and tab elements, as well as integrating total file caching stats, enhancing the user experience and data visualization. They also improved the code's functionality by implementing HTTPS support, and improved the reliability of the software by ensuring the correct hostname.
zendopcache-guieffectivephpclean
amnuts/jwplayer-thumbnail-preview-generator
Oct 2014 - Oct 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 11 commits, 7 pushes in 7 years
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