Andy Stafford
Technical Lead at iHasco
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndy Stafford is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years of modern PHP/MySQL experience and a software career stretching back to the late 1980s, bringing deep hands-on expertise in legacy systems, Laravel migrations, and serverless microservices. He has led small teams and modernisation efforts—moving large PIM and e-learning platforms to PaaS, adopting Eloquent/Laravel, introducing CI/CD, and resolving complex database performance bottlenecks. Comfortable across the full stack, Andy pairs pragmatic engineering (profiling with Blackfire/Tideways, RDS tuning) with stakeholder-facing work: refining requirements, planning sprints and mentoring colleagues. His background includes running a long-standing freelance/dev agency, building bespoke CMS and e-commerce systems, and early-career mainframe and POS development, which gives him a rare perspective on both modern and legacy enterprise stacks. Off-duty he’s a prolific tinkerer and music lover who brings the same curiosity to photography, cooking and home projects as he does to debugging tricky production issues.
10 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
demandware10
logdna9
xml9
php-library9
pestphp8
monolog8
laravel-framework6
mongodb6
php6
laravel6
eloquent6
phpunit5
testing5
assertion5
table-of-contents4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fusionspim/php-markdown-toc
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Generates a table of contents for a Markdown document, based on the headings within
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
markdowntable-of-contents
fusionspim/php-capsule-listener
May 2019 - Aug 2022
Simple debugging tool for usage with Laravel's Eloquent ORM
Contributions:13 releases, 10 reviews, 26 PRs in 3 years 3 months
debuggingeloquent-ormlaravel
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