Gareth Lawson
Senior Application Developer
George, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolGareth Lawson is a Senior Application Developer with over 18 years in software development and 11 years of focused industry experience, specializing in PHP ecosystems such as Laravel, Symfony and WordPress. He combines a B.Sc. in Applied Information Technology with digital marketing and SEO certifications, bringing a practical blend of technical depth and product-minded growth skills to eCommerce and web platforms. Gareth has run his own web development business and led technical efforts at startups in information security and chatbot technology, gaining hands-on experience in leadership, business administration and client-facing delivery. A pragmatic problem-solver, he favors Agile practices, MySQL and Linux-based stacks and currently drives feature development and maintenance at DealersOnline. Outside work he channels creativity through blues-rock singing and lead guitar, which he credits for maintaining balance and inspiring unconventional solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Configuring and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2010 at Bytes People SolutionsSubject's Passed, Subject's Passed at Matric Exemption 1998 Wendywood High SchoolB.Sc., B.Sc. at Midrand UniversityMicrosoft SharePoint End User Training, Microsoft SharePoint End User Training at iWorkerDiploma in Digital Marketing, Diploma in Digital Marketing at Digital Marketing InstituteSEO Certificate, SEO Certificate at Blue Magnet Digital
Afrikaans
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Github Skills (27)
relational10
nette9
doctrine9
php9
mapper9
database9
vulnerabilities8
vulnerability-scanners8
orm8
security8
vulnerability8
mysql8
vulnerability-management7
laravel7
soap-client6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Ruggedy-Limited/ruggedy-vma
May 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1087 commits, 11 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 8 months
vulnerabilitiessecurityvulnerability-managementvulnerabilityapp-management
Ruggedy-Limited/ruggedy-vma-docker
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
dockerizeddocker
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