Carl Casbolt
Senior Software Engineer II at Platinum Tech Solutions Ltd
Rochford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarl Casbolt is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-traffic web platforms and search-driven services, currently at Parkopedia and running his own consultancy. He blends deep PHP, Symfony/Laravel and SQL expertise with production-grade DevOps—AWS, ElasticSearch, Redis, CDN and container workflows—to deliver reliable CI/CD pipelines and performant APIs. Carl has a track record of leading and scaling cross-site teams, introducing TDD and automated deployments, and mentoring developers to raise productivity. His background includes hands-on migration and performance work (notably for New Scientist) and building microservices and search analytics for sports and media products. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he often pairs legacy modernization with pragmatic release engineering to reduce risk and speed delivery.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Maths Physics Computing, A-Level Maths Physics Computing at WoodhouseBSc (Hons) Internet Techology, BSc (Hons) Internet Techology at University of Portsmouth
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Github Skills (56)
search-engine10
bundle10
java10
php10
symfony10
elasticsearch10
oauth-client9
amazon-cloudfront9
opensearch9
authentication9
symfony-bundle9
php-framework9
api9
restful9
oauth9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
carlcasbolt/symfony-docs
Jul 2016 - Apr 2024
The Symfony documentation
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 10 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlesymfony
PlatinumTechSolutions/user-registration-app
Feb 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:46 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
phpsymfony-bundleregistrationuser-registrationsymfony
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