Dan Smart
PHP Developer at Box UK
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Smart is a versatile PHP and full‑stack web developer with 11 years’ commercial experience building responsive sites, APIs and mobile web apps for startups and enterprise clients. He combines deep PHP and modern JavaScript expertise (React Native, Laravel, Node.js) with long experience in WordPress, e‑commerce and integrations across PayPal, Google APIs and AWS services. Comfortable as a hands‑on developer or technical lead, he has architected cloud‑hosted platforms, led teams at Foundee and delivered projects for News Corp and other notable clients. Unusually, he spent four years as a missionary in Swaziland where he managed IT for community projects and trained local young people in web development—bringing strong cross‑cultural communication and practical IT operations experience. Based in Swansea, he currently contributes to Box UK while continuing freelance work and maintains a public portfolio at dansmart.co.uk.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Aylesbury Grammar SchoolBSc (Hons), Computer Science / Software Engineering, BSc (Hons), Computer Science / Software Engineering at University of Birmingham
French
Stackoverflow
1,052reputation
93kreached
16answers
2questions
woocommerce
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twitter-bootstrap
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wordpress
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Github Skills (17)
twitter-bootstrap9
woocommerce9
wordpress9
wordpress-plugin7
sorting6
wordpress-api6
backbonejs6
underscorejs6
laravel6
relationship6
router6
javascript6
eloquent6
intranet5
elasticsearch4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
dansmart/mobile-smart
Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 years 2 months
wordpresswordpress-plugin
10up/ElasticPress
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
queryintranetquery-enginewp-querywordpress-api
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