Graham May
Senior Developer, WordPress Lead at Soapbox – creative communications for ideas that matter
High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGraham May is a Senior Developer and WordPress Lead with 11 years’ experience building accessible, secure websites and web applications for think-tanks, research institutes and policymakers. He combines hands-on front- and back-end expertise—WordPress, Drupal and bespoke PHP work—with team leadership and quality/security stewardship at Soapbox. Earlier roles at Thomson Reuters honed his UX and instructional design chops, where he automated translation workflows and restructured Flash course pipelines to speed deployment and multi-device support. An active problem-solver, he has contributed back-end fixes to the Bolt CMS, improving content handling and logging. Based in High Wycombe, he holds a First Class BSc in Multimedia Technology & Design and brings a practical, efficiency-driven mindset to complex web projects.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bexley Grammar SchoolBachelor's Degree, Multimedia Technology & Design BSc with Professional Development, First Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Multimedia Technology & Design BSc with Professional Development, First Class Honours at Brunel University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
cms10
php10
bolt10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig9
sqlite6
postgresql6
silex6
mysql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bolt/bolt
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 50 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Bolt CMS. Their work involved fixing bugs related to repeater fields, modifying code to utilize content type arrays, and updating select field options. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving data handling, content management, and template functionality within the CMS framework. Additionally, the user made a change to output HTML logs, contributing to the system's logging capabilities.
cmsboltmysqltwigphp
graham73may/bolt-redirects-manager
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
cmsbolt-cmsboltphphtaccess
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