Dave Hollingworth
Head Engineer at Dorje
Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDave Hollingworth is a multidisciplinary Head Engineer and producer with over a decade of experience blending music production, live performance and web application development from the Greater Guildford area. He leads technical and creative operations at The Cove Music while playing bass and drums in active projects Dorje and Scratch Latin, and freelances as a producer for diverse artists. Endorsed by D'Addario, Planet Waves, Ashdown and Chapman Guitars, he also serves as Technical Coordinator for Chapman Guitars' MLB-1 Bass Project and creates training and review content for Andertons and ACM. Technically fluent beyond audio, he builds and maintains web tools—demonstrated by a PHP MVC framework on GitHub where he modernized dependency management, Twig integration and routing security for PHP 7. That mix of studio leadership, touring musician experience and practical developer skills makes him adept at solving both creative and technical problems end-to-end. He brings a hands-on, educator’s approach to projects, turning complex workflows into accessible processes.
10 years of coding experience
BA, Music Production, BA, Music Production at The Academy Of Contemporary MusicNC, Popular Music, NC, Popular Music at Leeds College Of Music
Stackoverflow
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internationalization
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ajax
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jquery
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (18)
mvc-framework10
ajax10
url-routing10
php10
twig10
composer10
jquery9
internationalization9
ruby-on-rails9
passenger6
webapp6
flask6
compatibility6
google-app-engine6
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
daveh/php-mvc
Mar 2016 - Jan 2021
A simple PHP model-view-controller framework, built step-by-step as part of the "Write PHP like a pro: build an MVC framework from scratch" course on Udemy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to setting up and configuring the PHP MVC framework. They integrated Composer for dependency management and refactored the autoloader. They also addressed pathing issues related to Twig integration and fixed a potential security vulnerability in the routing logic. Furthermore, the user updated the codebase to reflect the use of PHP 7 and the Twig 2.0 version.
model-view-controllermvc-frameworkphpphp-mvc
daveh/learn-codeigniter
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:158 commits, 2 pushes in 3 days
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