David Parkinson
Head Of Software Development at Skiddle
Blackpool Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Parkinson is a seasoned software leader with 14 years' experience building data-driven web and e-commerce platforms, currently serving as Head of Software Development at Skiddle. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter), REST APIs, MySQL and AWS with a Certified ScrumMaster mindset to deliver performant, secure and usable web applications. His career progressed from junior developer to departmental lead, giving him deep operational knowledge of scaling infrastructure with ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, caching and Linux web stacks. An active backend contributor to the popular CodeIgniter Ion Auth project, he has a proven eye for maintainability and authentication security. Based in Blackpool, he pairs practical engineering with team leadership to turn complex requirements into production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lancaster UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Central LancashireHigher National Diploma Computer Programming, Higher National Diploma Computer Programming at Blackpool and The Fylde College
Github Skills (15)
authentication10
php10
user-authentication10
codeigniter10
back-end-development10
database9
database-design9
databases9
api8
api-design8
sql7
mysql7
mysql-db7
mysqli7
fest5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benedmunds/CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth
Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
Simple and Lightweight Auth System for CodeIgniter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the backend logic and functionality of the authentication system. Their work included modifying the `Ion_auth` library and `ion_auth_model` to enhance user registration, group management, and password handling. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code maintainability and addressing potential security vulnerabilities related to user authentication and session management. They also addressed issues related to email formatting and cookie handling.
authcodeigniter
Skiddle/skiddle-php-sdk
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
A PHP wrapper to help easily access data from the Skiddle API
Contributions:2 releases, 1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
php
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