Peter Mellett
Freelance Software Developer at Peter Mellett
Chapel Amble, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Mellett is a freelance software developer with 14 years' experience building and extending SaaS platforms, SPAs, and API integrations using Ruby, PHP and JavaScript from his base in North Cornwall. He combines hands-on backend work (notably modernising Rails apps) with front-end single-page application development and practical DevOps skills, having contributed to open-source projects like 24 Pull Requests to update Rails versions and improve data integrity. His client work spans public transport data to professional and educational medical software, reflecting an ability to handle domain-specific, production-grade systems. Comfortable estimating and owning projects end-to-end, he also brings experience with Laravel and cloud-hosted services from prior agency and ISP roles. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances legacy migration with modern tooling to deliver reliable, maintainable software.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Higher Education, Computer Science, Diploma of Higher Education, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddUckfield Community Technology College
English
Stackoverflow
542reputation
44kreached
24answers
3questions
Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
database-migration10
postgresql9
git-pull9
pullrequest9
open-source8
javascript8
testing8
co7
ruby-on-rails6
go6
php6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
24pullrequests/24pullrequests
Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
:christmas_tree: Giving back to open source for the holidays
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 40 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to various aspects of the 24 Pull Requests project, demonstrating a focus on modernizing the Rails application. They updated the Rails environment to version 4, including adjusting routes and configuration files. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the codebase, such as implementing strong parameters, adding pagination, and incorporating unique constraint validations to improve data integrity.
christmas-treerailsjavascriptrubychristmas
wadtech/cornwall-rug
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Cornwall Ruby website https://cornwallruby.co.uk
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
railscornwallruby
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