Jose Consador
Software Engineer at Toptal
Pasay, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Consador is a seasoned Software Engineer with 13 years building scalable web applications from the Philippines, specializing in Laravel while maintaining strong expertise in Ruby on Rails, Vue, and React. He has led integrations and ensured high code quality and test coverage as a tech lead at Zendesk and currently architects solutions for diverse clients at Toptal, often leveraging AWS for production systems. His open-source contributions include improving test suites for the widely used zendesk_api_client_php, demonstrating a focus on reliability and maintainability beyond feature work. Past roles span startups, agency work, and product teams where he combined hands-on development with mentoring and project scoping, and even co-founded a short-lived venture that sharpened his product instincts. Quietly technical and process-minded, he pairs deep PHP/Rails experience with a habit of raising engineering standards through testing and refactoring.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General at University of Santo Tomas
English
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
guzzle10
phpunit10
php10
api-testing10
test-automation10
apidoc9
api9
rest-api9
routes6
codeigniter6
advanced-custom-fields6
drupal6
wordpress6
json6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/zendesk_api_client_php
Jun 2015 - May 2018
Official Zendesk API v2 client library for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 releases, 212 commits, 114 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on improving the test suite for the Zendesk PHP API client. Their work involved refactoring test setups, creating mock API calls to simulate responses, and implementing new tests for various resources within the API client, including Users, Views, and Tickets. The contributions increased the test coverage and ensured the client's functionality across different API endpoints.
api-clientapiclient-libraryphpzendesk
roncodes/zendesk_api_client_php
Jun 2015 - May 2018
Official Zendesk API v2 client library for PHP
Contributions:212 commits in 3 years
api-clientapiclient-libraryphpzendesk
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