Andy Carter
Technical Team Lead at Street Art Sheffield
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Carter is a technical team lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building bespoke web applications and APIs, currently leading engineering at Evoluted from Sheffield. With a PhD background in physics, he brings analytical rigor and inventive problem-solving to both back-end work in Laravel/CakePHP and front-end standards-driven development. He has a strong track record improving developer experience and reliability—contributing documentation to CakePHP and Crud, authoring queue task implementations, and hardening CI for a global country-JSON project. Known for meticulous code and attention to accessibility and SEO, he pairs practical engineering with a creative eye for web UX. Outside work he founded and runs Street Art Sheffield, showing an entrepreneurial streak and local community engagement.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of York
Stackoverflow
8,490reputation
521kreached
341answers
23questions
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top-5%
cakephp
top-1%
validation
top-5%
Github Skills (23)
cakephp10
restructuredtext10
gulp10
rs10
queuing10
cicd10
doc10
console-application10
php10
documentation10
queue10
software-design9
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
validation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samayo/country-json
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
A simple data of the world by country each in JSON format.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 16 PRs, 6 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andy focused on integrating and improving the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process of the project. This involved adding and modifying Gulp tasks to validate JSON files. They implemented error handling to ensure Gulp fails when JSON linting fails and corrected configuration issues to resolve build failures. These changes contributed to maintaining code quality and a reliable build process for the project.
capital-citycountry-jsonregionjson-formatcurrency
cakephp/docs
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on improving the documentation for the CakePHP framework. Their contributions included fixing typos, correcting markup errors in example code, updating the coding conventions guide, and refining the migration guide. Furthermore, they updated deprecated version information. These changes indicate a focus on ensuring the documentation's accuracy and clarity for users of the CakePHP framework.
phpcookbookcakephp
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