Sean Poynter-smith
Senior Back End Engineer at axitech
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Poynter-smith is a Senior Back End Engineer with eight years building robust web platforms across ecommerce, travel, and SaaS, currently driving backend work at axitech. He has hands-on experience with PHP, MySQL, Laravel and AWS, and has owned full lifecycle backend projects from design through deployment while working closely with product and design teams. Recent roles include performance- and migration-focused work for HomeExchange and feature delivery at Love Home Swap, demonstrating an ability to tackle both data migration complexity and user-facing functionality. Sean also brings entrepreneurial experience as a freelance developer and WordPress/WooCommerce contributor, which sharpened his product empathy and client-facing skills. Based in St Albans, he combines practical backend expertise with a history of cross-functional collaboration and a steady focus on code quality and reusability. An Open University computer science graduate, he pairs formal study with continuous self-learning like freeCodeCamp front-end training.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The Open UniversityFront End Web Development, Front End Web Development at freeCodeCampA-Level Information & Technology Science Mathematics, A-Level Information & Technology Science Mathematics at Rossmore Community College
Github Skills (95)
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jquery9
django9
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sentry9
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woocommerce-rest-api9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Pentangle/laravel-deployment-action
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Github action for deploying Laravel
Contributions:29 releases, 47 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
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spoyntersmith/upptime-monitor
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:922 pushes, 4 comments, 6 issues in 9 months
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