Adam Strawson
Web Developer
- Mobile: +44 (0)7867 977184
- Email: adam@adamstrawson.com
- Url: http://adamstrawson.com
Experience
Create.
Developer
September 2011 - Current
I am currently a PHP developer with Create. I work within the development team managing the platform and building new features. I also manage the development environment and currently putting in place a CI system to help with the testing and automation within development.
Zopa Ltd.
Developer
June 2010 - September 2011
As a developer at Zopa, my tasks included working with marketing to create pages based on their briefs to increase conversions, and improve the users experiences through the website. It was also my task to manage the blog and forum platforms.
Grimaldi Media
Web Developer
March 2009 - April 2010
While working with Grimaldi Media, it was my role to oversea the overall build of web projects, building templates from supplied designs, and integrating with Content Management Systems.
Misc
August 2008 - March 2009
Butlins, Technical Stage Manager
November 2005 - August 2008
Stage Support Services, Lighting Designer/Rigger
Projects
RoastHunter
http://roasthunter.co.uk
RoastHunter is a website listing locations near you where you can find a good roast. RoastHunter is built using CodeIgniter, the Google Maps API and a sub-site using Wordpress. I am also developing an iPhone application for RoastHunter built in Titanium, and using the API framework Slim http://slimframework.com to pull data from the MySQL database for the iPhone application.
Project X (Nameless)
Project X is currently a work in progress, It will be an opensource deployment system for PHP projects. Project X connects to your Git/Subversion project and deploys to your webservers on demand. This project came about as I wanted to build something for the opensource community and grow my knowledge with PDO and development in general.
Billr
http://billr.co.uk
Billr is an interface add-on to http://freeagentcentral.com. Billr allows clients to view and manage the invoices that are generated within FreeAgent, although Freeagent is still in progress, upon launch I plan on intergrating a payment portal to allow clients to pay the invoices. Billr is built using the FreeAgent API.
Tools
- OS X
- LAMP Stack
- Nginx
- NodeJS
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3)
- RackSpace (Cloud Servers, Load Balancers, Cloud Files)
- Javascript (JQuery)
- HTML
- CSS
- RESTful API’s
- Facebook API
- Git/Subversion
Style
- Agile team management
- Pair Programming
- Test-focused Development
Future Goals
- Learn Ruby as a primarly language
- Understand data analysis, statistics, prediction and visualisation.
- Move from being primarly a developer and into devops