Tom Lopez

Background

About Tom Lopez

Over 15 years experience working with Backend web technologies to deliver complex applications and the supporting infrastructure. Aquia certified Drupal Backend specialist with experience in Symphony, AWS DevOps, Kubernetes, Microservices, Node.JS, Python and Go. Full stack performance profiling and optimisation, Docker Containerisation, CI/CD engineering, Developer tools and process. Long stints in both public and private sector roles. As well as development in the whole back-end web stack this has included liaising with customers and stakeholders throughout the product life-cycle, working on specifying and architecting solutions, managing agile development teams and mentoring junior colleagues. Key skills: PHP using Symphony, and development of custom and contrib modules to Drupal.org coding standards, including Drupal SOLR integration and Search API, Drupal Commerce. AWS DevOps, EKS Kubernetes scalable hosting, networking, lambda Microservices. Cloudformation and terraform IaC. Docker containerisation for hosting solutions and local developer workflow. CI / CD setups in Bitbucket, Gitlab, Jenkins. Experience using Node.js, Python, Bash, Go for microservices, test automation, command line tools. Lead developer experienced in overseeing and ensuring code quality in agile dev teams. Content and data migrations. Full stack performance optimisation. Caching strategy, Distributed Varnish, CDN setup. GIT version control, favouring the git-flow system. Experience working in Agile teams / Scrum methodology. SQL including MySQL, Postgres and AWS RDS services