Matthew Mcconnell
Lead Developer at Chard (1964) Ltd
West Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcconnell is a Lead Developer with 14 years of hands-on experience crafting and maintaining websites and internal systems from West Lancashire, UK. He specializes in web development across WordPress, bespoke web systems, and legacy PHP stacks, focusing on improving user experiences and operational reliability. At Chard (1964) Ltd he leads development and upkeep of customer-facing sites and internal tools, building on earlier roles that ranged from network/server rebuilds to PSD-to-WordPress implementations. An attentive technical writer on the Fuel PHP docs, he improves developer usability by clarifying email/session features and tidying code examples—an indicator of his attention to detail beyond coding. Practical, customer-facing, and infrastructure-savvy, he blends front-end polish with back-end stewardship to keep sites both usable and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A Level, Electronic, A Level, Electronic at Blackpool Sixth FormMontgomery High School
Github Skills (7)
markdown10
markdown-it10
f10
fuelphp10
fuel10
documentation10
php9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fuel/docs
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
Fuel PHP Framework - Fuel v1.x documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the documentation for the Fuel PHP Framework. Their work focused on refining the documentation for specific features like session handling, including relevant configuration details. They added comprehensive documentation for the `return_path` method within the email package and corrected inconsistencies within the tables. The user also addressed code formatting issues to improve readability.
phpfuelphpfuel-v1
maca134/ExileLootDrop
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
A server mod/extension to replace the Exile loot drop function with a dll.
Contributions:9 releases, 20 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
exilemodlootserver-modpathofexile
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