Rick Ogden
Consultant Founder at Harmonic Digital
Stockport, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRick Ogden is a software consultant, architect and founder with 14+ years building scalable web and geospatial systems, specialising in PHP, Symfony and AWS. He has led platform architecture and helped scale a payments-heavy platform from 12,000 to over 4 million users while ensuring PCI-DSS and GDPR compliance. Rick designs asynchronous, event-driven microservices and has practical experience marrying legacy systems with modern stacks using NoSQL, RDS and message queues. He teaches and develops university modules, bringing academic rigor to industry practices like TDD, high test coverage and modern PHP paradigms. Based in Stockport, he also consults on optimisation, security and bespoke geospatial solutions, and once early-adopted PHP on AWS Lambda via a custom runtime to unlock serverless benefits before mainstream tools existed.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (by Research) Design and Development of a Generic Location-based Social Media Application, MSc (by Research) Design and Development of a Generic Location-based Social Media Application at The University of Salford
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Github Skills (76)
gps10
geodata10
gps-tracker10
elevation10
location10
mapper10
database10
gpx10
garmin10
location-services10
wsdl10
doctrine10
coordinates10
currency-exchange10
symfony10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
airtimerewards/ar-connect-php-sdk
Aug 2018 - Dec 2023
The PHP library for integrating with AR Connect.
Contributions:8 releases, 15 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 5 months
php-libraryintegratingphpnetsuite
rickogden/Location
Mar 2012 - Nov 2022
PHP Location Library
Contributions:22 releases, 204 commits, 15 PRs in 10 years 9 months
geodataphpgarmingps-trackergeofence
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