Evan Coury
Owner at Roave
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
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Top expert inWeb Development and E-commerce Solutions with PHP
Evan Coury is an experienced software engineer and owner with over 16 years in development, design, and technical leadership, and seven years operating in high-demand professional environments. He blends strong backend expertise in PHP/Zend/Laminas and Doctrine with full-stack work on projects like WooCommerce’s Stripe gateway and a variety of Zend Framework modules. As a hands-on contributor to prominent open-source repos, he has improved event management, modularity, and developer tooling—work that improved flexibility and test coverage across frameworks. He has led teams and projects from startup to enterprise settings, most recently as Lead Developer/Consultant at Ez Texting while running Roave. Colleagues describe him as highly motivated with contagious energy, an effective communicator, and a pragmatic problem solver who favors maintainable, configurable systems. Based in Gilbert, AZ, he combines long-term entrepreneurial ownership with steady open-source stewardship and a knack for translating framework internals into production-ready features.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (57)
mvc-framework10
laminas10
unit-testing10
woocommerce10
git10
reflection10
javascript10
transaction10
url-routing10
event-handling10
github10
package-development10
plugin-development10
wordpress10
doctrine10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ZF-Commons/ZfcUser
Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
A generic user registration and authentication module for ZF2. Supports Zend\Db and Doctrine2. (Formerly EdpUser)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan's contributions primarily involved refactoring and renaming code elements within the ZfcUser module. This includes systematically replacing instances of "EdpUser" with "ZfcUser" across multiple files, including configuration and source code, indicating a significant effort to update the module's naming convention. The user also added validator registrations. These commits show a clear focus on maintaining and restructuring the core components of the user authentication module.
zendzf2phpauthenticationregistration
zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication
Sep 2011 - Apr 2013
Skeleton application for zend-mvc projects
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:164 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Evan contributed significantly to the ZendSkeletonApplication project, implementing features and making substantial updates. Their work includes adapting the application to use the latest ZF2 and related components, and updating the project's layout and configurations. They updated the view layer and made changes to routes and application configuration. They also added Twitter Bootstrap and other aesthetic improvements to the application.
zendskeletonskeleton-applicationzend-mvcphp
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