Kirk Bushell
Co-founder & Technical Director at Award Force
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorKirk Bushell is a driven software leader and serial co-founder with 13 years of experience architecting and delivering web platforms from Sydney, Australia. As Technical Director at multiple ventures including Good Grants, Creative Force Team, and Award Force, he blends hands‑on engineering with strategic security and reliability ownership to scale mission‑critical SaaS products. He emphasizes test-driven development and quality—demonstrated by meaningful backend and QA contributions to the popular Flarum forum framework, where he migrated tests to PHPUnit and strengthened core test coverage. Kirk excels at turning ambiguous, industry‑shaping ideas into pragmatic software solutions, and is known for pushing teams toward more manageable, secure architectures.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (10)
php10
mockery10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
phpunit10
testing10
forum9
database-testing9
javascript6
co5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
flarum/framework
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Simple forum software for building great communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:26 commits, 4 PRs, 35 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kirk focused on improving the testing infrastructure and adding tests for the Flarum framework. They replaced the existing testing library with PHPUnit and added tests for settings repositories, admin login/cookie checks, and exception handlers. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on code quality, reliability, and test-driven development, which is crucial for maintaining a stable and robust forum platform.
forumjavascriptphpcommunitiesflarum
tectonic/pjax-router
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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