Brett Bailey
Self Employed
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Bailey is a seasoned integration-focused developer with a decade of experience building back-end systems that reshape how businesses operate, currently contributing at FeeSynergy from the Gold Coast. He specializes in accounting and e-commerce integrations, having connected a proprietary platform to over 20 accounting systems and multiple marketplaces like Amazon and eBay while at Web Ninja. Brett has a strong PHP/Laravel background demonstrated by contributions to mail-tracker and the xero-php library, where he implemented tracking, Practice Manager endpoints, invoice enhancements and unit tests. Comfortable working independently as a contractor since 2014, he blends pragmatic engineering with deep domain knowledge of MYOB, Xero, SAP Business One and others. He holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from Griffith University and pursues continual learning via platforms like Free Code Camp. Notably, his work often targets the hard, behind-the-scenes plumbing—link tracking, API adapters and data type correctness—that makes integrations reliably useful in production.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, 6.375 GPA, Bachelor, Information Technology, 6.375 GPA at Griffith UniversityFree Code Camp
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Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
xero-api10
php10
api10
testing9
unit-testing9
database8
databases8
database-api8
html6
coredata6
sylius6
floating-point6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jdavidbakr/mail-tracker
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
Package for Laravel to inject tracking code into outgoing emails.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Brett contributed to the backend logic of the Laravel-based mail-tracker package. Their work included modifying the link-tracking mechanism and implementing features for tracking email opens and clicks. They also added property comments to enhance code autocompletion and included a test to ensure the tracking functionality worked correctly. Additional changes involved updating configuration and controlling link expiration.
phpemailemailstrackinginject
calcinai/xero-php
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brett focused on developing and modifying the backend functionality of the xero-php library, specifically adding features related to the Practice Manager API. They implemented client endpoints and custom field definitions, including related getters and setters. The contributions also involved adding invoice functionality, specifically adding costs to the base invoice class and correcting data types, showcasing a focus on expanding the library's capabilities to interact with the Xero Practice Manager API. Additionally, the user implemented unit tests to ensure functionality.
apiphpxerooauth2php-library
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