Scott Tester
IT Administrator
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Tester is an experienced IT professional with 12+ years managing networks, applications and help desk operations at Sydney Missionary and Bible College. He brings a strong systems-programming background from earlier work with PLCs, microcontrollers and embedded C, giving him practical expertise in low-level control systems and industrial automation. An active open-source contributor, Scott has fixed core issues in the widely used Yii2 PHP framework—improving file path normalization and batch insert handling—demonstrating attention to robustness in backend systems. Based in Sydney, he blends operational IT administration with hands-on development, able to move from infrastructure troubleshooting to shipping code fixes. His background in theatre and theology adds unusual strengths in communication, adaptability and mission-driven collaboration. Colleagues can rely on him for steady, detail-oriented problem solving grounded in long-term service.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Christian Community High SchoolBachelor of Theology, Bachelor of Theology at Sydney Missionary and Bible College
Github Skills (9)
yii10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php-framework10
php10
database9
databases9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yiisoft/yii2
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the Yii2 framework by addressing specific issues related to file path normalization and database interaction. Their work included fixing bugs in the `FileHelper` class, particularly concerning path normalization and the handling of relative paths. Additionally, the user updated the framework to allow null values in batch insert operations. These changes demonstrate an understanding of core framework functionalities and contributing to bug fixes and improvements.
secureprofessionalchinese-simplifiedyiiphp
skotos/dompdf
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
pdfphp5phphtml-to-pdfpdf-generation
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