Hugh Downer
Team Lead at GatherContent
New Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugh Downer is a Team Lead with 12 years of hands-on web development experience, currently leading engineering efforts at GatherContent from his base in the New Forest. He specializes in building reliable, test-covered PHP/MySQL backends and polished front-ends using HTML, CSS and jQuery, having modernised legacy codebases and APIs across multiple SaaS products. Hugh has progressed from individual contributor roles at agencies and startups to managing small teams and setting sprint goals, bringing practical delivery focus and a strong customer-centered mindset. His background includes work on marketplace and education-focused platforms, and he has experience improving test coverage and integration reliability in distributed teams. Comfortable balancing hands-on coding with leadership, he is notable for turning prototype systems into maintainable, production-grade applications.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2.1, Business Information Technology, 2.1, Business Information Technology at Bournemouth University
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Github Skills (104)
instagram10
uploader10
encoding10
resumable10
validation10
tus10
modular9
cakephp9
rtf9
doc9
rapid9
authentication9
rest-api9
powerpoint9
php-library9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
HughbertD/hughbertd.github.io
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
HughbertD/oauth2-unsplash
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Unsplash OAuth 2.0 Client Provider for The PHP League OAuth2-Client
Contributions:5 releases, 10 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
provideroauth-2league-oauth2phpleague
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