Andrew Gatenby
Senior Developer at Visualsoft
Thornaby-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Gatenby is a Senior Developer with eight years of hands-on experience building and optimising PHP/MySQL eCommerce platforms at award-winning Visualsoft. He specialises in PHP5 MVC and OOP, MySQL query optimisation, accessibility-conscious front-end work and scalable, modular CMS development that powers hundreds of client sites. At Visualsoft he splits time between R&D—creating portable, feature-rich platform components—and maintenance/optimisation of core systems, ensuring efficient integration and strong SEO outcomes. Comfortable across the stack, he also handles technical specifications, documentation and web-server management on Apache/Linux. Outside work he’s a pragmatic coder with a playful streak—known to “enjoy deleting code”—and brings a competitive, analytical mindset (GeoGuessr champ) to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
MA, MA at Teesside University
Github Skills (41)
seed9
sony9
lumen9
php-library9
integration-testing8
phpunit8
migration8
laravel8
unit-testing8
database-migrations8
eloquent7
chrome-extension7
php7
playstation7
webextension6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewGatenbyVS/snap-migrations
May 2019 - May 2022
🚀 Super-fast alternative to running database migrations (and optionally, seeds) during Tests, for Lumen & Laravel. Can save 75% of the migration (and seed) setup time, versus using the regular DatabaseMigrations trait.
Contributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 25 commits in 3 years
traitdatabase-migrationsdatabaseeloquentlaravel-lumen
AndrewGatenbyVS/music-box
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
🎧 Get your last weeks listening report from last.fm in a GitHub Gist.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 5 months
listeninggithub-gistreportgistlast-fm
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