Connor G - Owner Founder at Eager Amoeba

Connor G

Owner Founder at Eager Amoeba

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

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Connor G is a freelance Senior Technical Consultant and founder with eight years of professional engineering experience, based in Sheffield, UK. He builds web apps, sites, games and bespoke software, and has led engineering teams in traffic, hospitality and creative industries as Head of Software Engineering at multiple companies. Comfortable joining projects at any stage, he’s trusted with high-profile, NDA-bound work and has pitched ideas to companies like Amazon and Microsoft at GDC London. Connor blends a background in live multi-camera event production and documentary media with hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions refactoring controllers and dependency injection in the FriendsOfSymfony message bundle. As owner of Eager Amoeba and a current senior consultant, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with pragmatic delivery to finish, improve, or launch complex projects.

8 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Media Studies, Media Studies at Sheffield College

Gcse Arts Entertainment and Media Management, Gcse Arts Entertainment and Media Management at Bradfield School

English

Github Skills (9)

php10

dependency-injection10

symfony10

symfony-ux10

testing9

system-configuration9

server-configuration9

configurations9

twig8

Programming languages (4)

ShellCSSJavaScriptPHP

Github contributions (5)

FriendsOfSymfony/FOSMessageBundle

May 2019 - Jan 2020

User-to-user messaging bundle for Symfony

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 30 PRs in 8 months

Contributions summary:Connor focused on refactoring the `MessageController` within the `fosmessagebundle` Symfony project. Their work involved transitioning the controller to use service configuration, including dependency injection through the constructor. They addressed issues with the dependency injection and explored alternative implementations, such as injecting the container directly. Furthermore, they modified tests to ensure the continued functionality of the message extension.

bundlephpsymfony-bundlemessagingsymfony

hex333ham/FOSMessageBundle

Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 year

bundlephpsymfony-bundlemessagingsymfony

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