Chuck Burgess
DevOps And Applications Developer
Albertville, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuck Burgess is a seasoned DevOps and applications developer with nearly two decades of continuous software experience since 1999, currently managing webapp platforms and CI/CD at Progress Rail Services. He blends deep PHP back-end expertise with infrastructure and security responsibilities—Linux, Apache, Oracle, Jenkins, Composer and vulnerability tooling—while acting as a subject-matter expert on upgrades and developer tooling. An active open-source contributor and long-time PEAR and PHP-FIG leader, his work improving phpDocumentor, Codeception, and Apache Storm demonstrates a knack for hardening tooling, improving test coverage, and resolving tricky dependency and resource-management issues. He’s comfortable across the full SDLC, from hands-on bug fixes and refactors to planning Linux upgrades and maintaining Composer mirrors for large teams. Based in Albertville, Alabama, Chuck pairs practical operational discipline with a developer’s attention to code quality and maintainability.
19 years of coding experience
Advanced Diploma, Advanced Diploma at Albertville High SchoolAssociate in Applied Science, Electronic Engineering Technology, Associate in Applied Science, Electronic Engineering Technology at Snead State Community College
php
Github Skills (31)
type-resolution10
unit-testing10
codeception10
reflection10
apache-storm10
testing10
code-standards10
databases10
java10
phpunit10
javas10
php10
flux10
reflections10
fluxor10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
phpDocumentor/ReflectionCommon
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 62 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily focused on maintaining and refactoring the phpDocumentor reflection library. Their contributions included adding strict typing, updating copyright and license information, and applying code style fixes. They also made changes to various core files, including `Fqsen.php`, `Location.php`, `ProjectFactory.php`, and `Project.php`, suggesting a focus on improving the library's overall structure and maintainability. The user also addressed issues related to code standards.
phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock
Nov 2012 - Jun 2018
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 72 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Chuck focused on enhancing the test suite for the `phpdocumentor/reflectiondocblock` repository. Their contributions included adding new integration and unit tests to cover specific scenarios like interpreting docblocks with ellipsis and the use of `var` tags. They also addressed issues related to regex patterns within the code. These efforts improved the test coverage and reliability of the documentation parsing functionality.
docblocks
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