David Wilcock
Engineering Manager at Chip - your wealth app
North West Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wilcock is an Engineering Manager with over two decades in IT and more than a decade focused on web development, specializing in PHP and backend systems. He has progressed from hands-on developer to technical architect and leader, currently shaping backend teams at fintech scale-up Chip after building high-throughput courier and marketplace integration platforms at Gear4Music. His expertise centers on third-party API integrations across marketplaces, couriers, warehousing and telecoms—if it exposes an API, he’s likely integrated it into production. A long-time open-source advocate, he contributes tooling and packages on GitHub and packagist and follows PHP internals closely to influence language progress. Known for pragmatic engineering that saves costs and scales operations, he combines low-level hardware integration experience with modern cloud-hosted architectures.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ysgol Dinas BranInformation Technology, Information Technology at North Shropshire College
Github Skills (38)
garmin10
adapter10
fpdf9
api9
wrench9
php8
cjk7
redis7
datamatrix7
redis-client7
daemon6
firmware6
linux6
generator6
pdo5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Gear4music/php-barcode-generator
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
This is an easy to use, non-bloated, framework independent, barcode generator in PHP.
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
barcode-generatorphpindependentdatamatrixgenerator
gear4dave/php-garmin-connect
May 2017 - May 2021
A PHP adapter for interrogating the Garmin Connect "API"
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
apiphpapi-connectgarmingarmin-connect
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