David Goodwin
Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDavid Goodwin is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 18 years’ experience in PHP, Linux, and systems administration, based in Bromsgrove, UK. He excels at diagnosing and fixing tricky production issues and improving code maintainability, often focusing on type safety and reliable server behavior. A regular open-source contributor, he has strengthened the pheanstalk PHP client for beanstalkd by enforcing type hints and refactoring core interfaces to reduce bugs. Colleagues know him for a dry, confident approach to problem-solving—able to both script deployment tasks and harden backend libraries. He combines hands-on sysadmin instincts with disciplined backend craftsmanship, making him a go-to for legacy systems that need steady, pragmatic care.
18 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (21)
mysql10
interface-design10
sa10
typehinting10
php10
type-checking10
ps10
json9
serialization9
object-oriented-programming9
bash9
shell9
testing7
smarty6
webgrind6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pheanstalk/pheanstalk
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
PHP client for beanstalkd queue
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to improving the codebase's type safety and maintainability. They fixed Psalm errors, ensuring proper type hinting and return types for several methods and interfaces. The user also refactored code to use `JobIdInterface` consistently, improving code consistency. They made changes to multiple files related to core functionality of the library.
phpbeanstalkdphp-client
DavidGoodwin/policyd-dnsbl-spf-geoip
Feb 2014 - Jul 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 6 pushes in 8 years 5 months
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