Dave French
Senior PHP Developer at Reassured
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave French is a seasoned Senior PHP Developer based in London with over 11 years delivering backend-focused full-stack solutions, particularly RESTful services, AJAX interfaces and SQL Server optimization. He blends deep SQL Server expertise—stored procedures, UDFs and performance tuning—with hands-on experience across LAMP (PHP), C#, ColdFusion and legacy C/C++/COM systems. As a former team lead and agile coach in telecoms, he pairs technical depth with practical delivery and people leadership for customer-facing and internal management tools. He has a track record of improving reporting and audit systems in regulated environments and of modernizing legacy apps into maintainable web solutions. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the Delay plugin in the notable LMMS music-production project, improving tempo sync, sample-accurate delay and UI responsiveness. Known for pragmatic refactors and measurable performance gains, he delivers robust, maintainable back-end architectures that support solid user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Physics, Mathmetics, N/A, Physics, Mathmetics at Southern Grammar School for Boys, Portsmouth
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
signal-processing10
plugin-development10
plug10
plugin10
digital-signal-processing10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
platform-independent9
software-design8
interface-design6
ui-design6
user-interface6
midi4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LMMS/lmms
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
Cross-platform music production software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 218 commits, 94 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to the development of the "Delay" plugin within the LMMS project, a cross-platform music production software. Their work involved implementing and refactoring core features, like tempo synchronization and sample-accurate delay. These changes included refactoring the code base for maintainability, and also improving the plugins responsiveness to user input. Their contributions also extended to UI improvements within the plugin, ensuring a more seamless user experience.
synthsynthesizermusic-compositionmidisongs
StudioSixPlusOne/rack-modules
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
VCV Rack modules
Contributions:53 releases, 514 commits, 203 PRs in 2 years 10 months
synthesizervcvrackvcv-rack-modulessynthesis
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