Ashley Coles
Senior Software Engineer at Salutare
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshley Coles is a Senior Software Engineer based in England with over 10 years building and maintaining web applications across PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, Drupal and modern JavaScript stacks. She combines hands-on backend work—such as adding widespread type-hinting and improving maintainability in the popular Slim PHP framework—with deep product-facing experience shipping client projects and enterprise maintenance. For six years she translated that practical experience into teaching, mentoring and curriculum design at a top-rated bootcamp, guiding students into their first software roles and delivering B2B workshops. At previous roles she handled large-scale e-commerce catalogs and legacy system modernization, showing a knack for pragmatic refactors under deadline pressure. Now returning to senior engineering at Salutare, she blends developer productivity, code quality and people-first coaching to accelerate delivery. Coles is notable for pairing meticulous back-end improvements in open-source tooling with real-world delivery and education experience.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
John Bentley
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Github Skills (9)
micro-framework10
url-routing10
typehinting10
php10
middleware10
type-checking10
exception-handling10
slim-framework10
psr-710
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
slimphp/Slim
May 2022 - May 2022
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ashley primarily focused on adding type hints to various middleware, routing, and exception-handling components within the Slim framework. Their contributions encompassed several core files, including those related to request handling, routing, and error management. These changes improve code readability and maintainability by incorporating type declarations. Furthermore, the user added types to factory classes and several exception classes.
micro-frameworkguzzlephp-frameworkslim-frameworksimple-yet-powerful
ashleycoles/gbphp
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
PHP the way god intended.
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 8 months
phpgod
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