Andrew Lyon
Contract Web Developer at Concrete Playground Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrew Lyon is a versatile contract web developer based in London with 15 years building full-stack web solutions across agencies and freelance clients. He combines deep PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Wordpress), front-end skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery) and strong database experience in MySQL with practical DevOps habits around Git and shell scripting. His portfolio spans e-commerce, CMS and microsites for brands and agencies, and he has driven award-winning charity and fundraising platforms while at Bluefrog. Comfortable scraping and automation with Python (Mechanize, BeautifulSoup) and even tinkering with AVR microcontrollers, he blends web engineering with hardware curiosity. Currently contributing to Good Schools Guide and running long-standing freelance work at Concrete Playground, he’s noted for turning usability-focused designs into robust, maintainable code. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often bridges designer-developer gaps to deliver production-ready sites on tight timelines.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vinehall SchoolSutton Valence SchoolBSc, Multimedia Technology & Design, BSc, Multimedia Technology & Design at University of Kent
Github Skills (2)
codeigniter5
sftp4
Github contributions (4)
ipolar/CodeIgniter-sFTP-Library
Dec 2010 - May 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 3 years 6 months
sftpcodeignitercommunicationsftp-server
ipolar/WebCheck-Scraper
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.