Daniel Wood
Senior Full Stack Developer at Freelance
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wood is a Senior Full Stack Developer based in Sydney with over six years of modern web development experience and a much longer history of building mission-critical applications across education and financial services. He specializes in PHP/Symfony, Laravel, React and TypeScript, and has delivered end-to-end products—from architecting the ACT Course Planner and Christ College’s Didasko student management system to shipping SPAs and CI-driven deployments at Paperform. A former Academic Registrar and lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, he pairs technical craft with deep domain understanding of academic workflows and integration with systems like Moodle and CRM platforms. Comfortable refactoring legacy systems and introducing test-driven practices (PHPUnit, Cypress), he prioritizes maintainability and automation. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a knack for turning administrative complexity into elegant, testable software.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Certificate, Computer Programming, Advanced Certificate, Computer Programming at TAFE NSWBachelor's degree (Honours), Theology/Theological Studies, 3.52 GPA, Bachelor's degree (Honours), Theology/Theological Studies, 3.52 GPA at Christ College Burwood (Australian College of Theology)
Github Skills (37)
cron10
artisan10
package10
dashboard9
laravel9
queue9
php8
scheduling8
bull8
factory7
scheduled-tasks7
adapter7
test-fixtures5
bundle5
faker5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gradziau/proda
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
PRODA Authorisation API Library
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
apiapi-libraryauthorisation
christcollegeau/laravel-app-settings
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Store settings in database with a manager UI for your Laravel app
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 3 months
phpdatabaselaravellaravel-appsettings
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