Sam de Poorter

Background

About Sam de Poorter

Lead developer. Bachelor of Science - 5 July 2012. Zend PHP 5.3 Certifications exam on 3 March 2013. MySQL 5.6(1Z0-882) exam on 22 January 2015./** Personal **/ Competent, driven and committed programmer with over 9 years of experience in web development (started from a Java background). Good exposure to high-volume and high-profile websites. Strong team player, positive mindset, flexible and hardworking. I have the ability to strike a balance between working independently and thriving a team atmosphere. Dedicated and focused individual, determined to add value to the organization I work for through my knowledge and learning ability./** Tech skills **/ Covered many projects with the LAMP-stack (Linux, Apache,Mysql,PHP), complemented with technologies as: NoSql (mongoDB), Doctrine, NGINX, node.js, Memcached, Redis. Professional and well experienced (countless projects) with Symfony (2.x - 3.x), Silex (1.x). Mediocre (numerous projects) with Magento (1.x) and Wordpress (3.x - 4.x). Minor experience with Drupal 8, CakePHP, CodeIgniter and Laravel. Proficient with the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)- Agile Methodology experience with analysis, design (UML, ERD, flow-charts), code, test (TDD, BDD) and deployment (Phing)./** Tools **/ Bug Tracking Tools Used : JIRA, Zendesk, Bugzilla and Mantis IDEs Used : Phpstorm (6.x-9.x - preferred), Zend studio(5.x), Eclipse and Netbeans. Operating System Used: OSX (preferred) and Windows. Documentation used: Confluence Version Control Tool Used: SVN, Git Testing/Debugging Techniques: Behat, Mink, Selenium, PHPUnit, Symfony profiler, XDebug, Junit, Xhprof and Apachebench /** API's **/ Third Party APIs / Payment Gateways: Credit Card API, PayPal API, Authorize Payment API, Google maps API, Google Search API, Google Adwords API, Facebook API, Social Plugin, Oauth(1 & 2), UNIT4, Syncforce, Buckaroo, Mailchimp, Mandrill, Twitter, Instagram and others. Well experienced in creating, maintaining own API's.