Philip Cook
Senior Web Developer at Fair for You Enterprise CIC
Cannock Chase, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPhilip Cook is a senior web developer with 12 years of experience building fast, responsive sites and complex web systems across Magento, WordPress and bespoke PHP platforms. He focuses on frontend user experience, SEO and conversion optimisation while also owning backend and DevOps improvements that streamline developer workflows. Philip has led teams and projects from agency and in-house roles to founding and directing a studio, now applying that blend of product-minded leadership and hands-on coding at Fair for You Enterprise. His open-source work includes a practical Homebrew-based PHP version switcher that eases local development for multi-version PHP projects, showing attention to developer ergonomics. Based in Cannock Chase, England, he brings a pragmatic balance of legacy PHP maintenance and modern performance-first practices.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (18)
travis-ci10
cicd10
php10
shell10
apache9
localhost9
bash9
git-svn9
homebrew9
macos9
video-streaming6
mercurial6
bitbucket6
validation6
youtube6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philcook/brew-php-switcher
Mar 2014 - Mar 2022
Brew PHP switcher is a simple shell script to switch your apache and CLI quickly between major versions of PHP. If you support multiple products/projects that are built using either brand new or old legacy PHP functionality. For users of Homebrew (or brew for short) currently only.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
DevOps Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 4 reviews, 45 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to automating the build, testing, and deployment processes using Travis CI. They added and modified installation scripts to support multiple PHP versions. Additionally, the user updated the core PHP switcher script, including support for new PHP versions and enhancements for Apache and Valet integration. These changes streamlined the environment setup and PHP version management for developers using the project.
brewphp-legacyxdebugphpphp71
philcook/php-gtmetrix
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
PHP client for the GTMetrix API
Contributions:6 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 5 months
apigtmetrixhttp-headerphp-clientphp
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