Jake Birchall
Senior Software Engineer at Future
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Birchall is a pragmatic software developer with 13 years of experience building backend systems, APIs, and internal tools for enterprises like CityFibre. He specializes in PHP ecosystems (Phalcon, Laravel) and systems integration—connecting services via Kafka and shipping secure, performant SaaS features. Comfortable across DevOps, networking and application layers, he’s fixed security risks, boosted page performance, and added integrations such as Slack and DocuSign. A self-described security nerd and gaming geek, he brings curiosity and a toolsmith mindset, often pushing PHP tooling to its limits to solve practical problems. Based in England, Jake pairs hands-on coding with an eye for operational reliability and measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taughtLaracasts
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
autoloader10
metadata10
interop10
teamspeak10
webextension10
earthquake10
safari10
botman10
file-sharing10
firefox10
api10
winget10
lichess10
hidden10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
JABirchall/NimdaTS3
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
An Advanced Teamspeak 3 Bot with a nice plugin autoloading
Contributions:14 releases, 216 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years
teamspeakbotphpautoloaderplugins
JABirchall/JABirchall
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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