Paul Dragoonis
Chief Technology Officer at ByteHire
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Dragoonis is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on software engineering practice across architecture, QA, DevOps and SRE. He now leads ByteHire, applying engineering rigor to recruitment technology while continuing to found and organize influential community efforts like ScotlandPHP and PHP UK Conference. A core contributor to the PHP language and a founder of PHP-FIG, his open-source work has driven standards now installed on hundreds of millions of systems and includes visible contributions to the php.net site. Paul blends strategic architecture for distributed systems and microservices with pragmatic CI/CD, TDD/BDD and testing architectures, and regularly teaches these topics worldwide. Known for mentoring and "pay it forward" activism, he pairs public speaking and workshop experience with practical delivery across sectors from banking and health to government and e-learning.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Zend Certified Engineer
Stackoverflow
2,325reputation
748kreached
55answers
5questions
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
css10
responsive-design10
php10
front-end-development10
html10
ajax9
user-interface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
filtering9
codeigniter6
passwords6
social-networking6
jquery6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
php/web-php
Jan 2013 - Mar 2016
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 11 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on the front-end components and design of the php.net website, specifically the beta version. Their contributions involved updating the beta theme, including the user interface, adding a responsive mobile menu, and integrating a back-to-top button. The user also addressed bugs, such as fixing HTML validation issues, and updated the download section and header links.
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