Gavin Kimpson
Software Engineer at Ebuyer (UK) Limited
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Kimpson is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with over two decades of commercial experience and 11 years in senior roles delivering scalable, reliable PHP-based web applications across startups and large organisations. He specialises in the PHP ecosystem (Zend/Laminas, Laravel, CodeIgniter) while also contributing Node.js and Angular work, API integrations, search platforms (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) and containerised deployments using Docker. At Ebuyer and SoCrowd he led feature development, payment and social integrations, CI/CD pipelines and mentored junior engineers, often rotating as scrum master to drive agile delivery. He’s committed to widening access to tech through active mentorship with Black Valley, pairing hands-on engineering with interview coaching and diversity advocacy. Notably, he has shipped multi-national systems (hotel CMS, e-commerce platforms) and reusable tooling—one of his early PHP OOP payment classes remains publicly used—demonstrating a blend of pragmatic problem-solving and long-term code stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE in Post Compulsory Education (ICT), PGCE in Post Compulsory Education (ICT) at University of WolverhamptonBA (Hons) Multimedia Studies, BA (Hons) Multimedia Studies at The University of Wolverhampton
English, French
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Github Skills (200)
directive10
travis-ci10
laravel-package10
automated-tests10
laravel9
phonegap9
cropperjs9
circleci9
laravel-blade9
cordova-plugin9
vanilla-javascript9
ionic-native9
browser-support9
css9
php9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gkimpson/fifa-proclubs-api-v10
Mar 2023 - Dec 2023
FIFA ProClubs API
Contributions:1 PR, 222 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
laravel
gkimpson/shrinktheweb-codeigniter
Aug 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 4 comments in 5 years 8 months
apicodeigniterthumbnailsin-progressphp
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