Vinnie Watson
Full Stack Web Developer at SilverStripe Limited
Invercargill City, Southland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolVinnie Watson is a pragmatic full-stack developer with over a decade of experience delivering web applications, SaaS platforms, and enterprise systems for startups and large organisations. He moves comfortably across PHP, Laravel, Silverstripe, Node.js, React/Vue, TypeScript, Python and Go, and pairs that with solid testing, CI/CD and AWS infrastructure practices. As a principal engineer he has designed microservices for enterprise SaaS, mentored teams, and driven front-end and backend integrations that improved reliability and delivery. Now based in Invercargill and available for remote work, he’s augmenting his software career with part-time mechanical and industrial automation study, positioning himself for IoT, robotics and manufacturing tech roles. Notably pragmatic and hands-on, he blends legacy CMS experience with modern cloud-native patterns and a curiosity for bridging software with physical systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
WelTec PetoneEngineer's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Engineer's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Southern Institute of TechnologyUpper Hutt College
Github Skills (150)
nette9
populate9
silverstripe9
php9
splashscreen9
installer9
internal-links8
cms8
hide8
formkit8
seo-optimization8
mvc-framework8
mvc7
omnipay7
identifier7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nzvvveb/silverstripe-designer
Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
Adds front end design capabilities to Silverstripe
Contributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years
capabilitiesfront-endsilverstripe
vinstah/silverstripe-framework
Feb 2016 - May 2019
SilverStripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers SilverStripe CMS
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
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