David Herbert
Freelance Software Developer at Dave Herbert
Harrogate, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Herbert is a UK-based freelance software developer with over a decade of commercial experience specialising in Magento and PHP-driven eCommerce solutions. He has led and mentored teams as a Technical Team Lead while also running a successful freelance practice delivering full builds, custom extensions and complex integrations for clients from sole traders to FTSE 250 enterprises. Passionate about TDD/BDD, clean code and Agile practices, he combines hands-on engineering with coaching to improve team processes and developer capability. Notably, he transitioned from agency leadership roles into long-term freelance engagements, preserving deep Magento expertise while evangelising better tooling and development practices. Based in Harrogate, he is a full-time freelancer and actively focuses on consultancy and contract work rather than permanent roles.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc. Honours, Computing, 2:1 BSc. Honours, Computing at Sheffield Hallam University
Github Skills (15)
graphic9
cloudinary9
magento-extension9
behat7
user-experience7
graphic-design7
phpspec7
magento5
php5
redux4
javascript3
react-applications3
react3
state-management2
speaker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
daveherbert/daveherbert.github.io
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
daveherbert/AcmeTraining
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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