Jason Judge
Web Application Developer
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJason Judge is a seasoned web application developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and hardening back-end systems from his base in Newcastle upon Tyne. He combines deep PHP/Laravel expertise with practical systems integration and architecture skills honed over decades of consultancy and technical-director roles. Jason has contributed meaningful improvements to notable open-source projects such as Omnipay and Filament, improving payment amount validation and table search robustness to increase reliability for downstream users. He is comfortable across the stack—from low-level validation and type fixes to rendering enhancements that pass full Eloquent models into UI components. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends long-term hardware and repair experience with modern web engineering to tackle both legacy and greenfield challenges. An MEng graduate, Jason brings steady technical leadership and a focus on dependable, well-tested solutions.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MEng (hons) Electronic Systems Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 2-1, MEng (hons) Electronic Systems Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 2-1 at Aston University
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Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
validations10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
testing10
validation10
laravel10
datatables10
omnipay10
php10
temp-tables10
software-design8
cookie6
laravel-migration6
wordpress6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/omnipay-common
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
Core components for the Omnipay PHP payment processing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the validation of amount values within the Omnipay library, specifically within the `AbstractRequest` class. They implemented checks for negative amounts, incorrect formats, and excessive precision. The contributions also included refactoring the `toFloat()` method and adding tests to ensure correct handling of different amount formats, including those with and without decimal places, and testing for negative amounts. These changes increased the robustness and reliability of the payment processing library.
omnipayphp
FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
An administrative interface package for Laravel
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on enhancing the `laravel-administrator` package's functionality. Their primary contribution was modifying the `renderOutput()` method within the `DataTable` and `Column` classes to pass the eloquent model to the output renderer. This change improved the flexibility of how column output is rendered. The user also addressed and resolved type-related issues within the codebase.
laravel
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