Résumé

Senior Software Engineer with over fifteen years in the industry, currently owning the architecture and delivery of a real time IVR survey platform at Medallia. I work in Laravel and PHP at the core, across enterprise CX, retail fulfilment, real time ordering and healthcare.

Depth
Laravel · PHP
Also
React · TypeScript · Vue
Domains
CX and CCaaS · retail fulfilment · health
Based
Christchurch NZ · UTC+12

Roles

  1. Aug 2022 to now

    Senior Software EngineerMedallia · remote, US

    Architecture and delivery of Mindful Feedback, a real time IVR survey platform running millions of surveys a day across enterprise CCaaS integrations. Six production environments including an isolated US only region for data sovereignty, under SOC 2. Mentoring, and a five person external vendor team.

    Medallia acquired Mindful in August 2022. I stayed with the product.

  2. Jan 2022 to Aug 2022

    Senior Software Engineer, contractMindful · remote, US

    Core features on the enterprise IVR platform. TDD with PHPUnit and Pest, refactoring a controller heavy monolith into service oriented code, and API performance work.

  3. Jun 2021 to Jan 2022

    Engineering Team LeadMEA Mobile · Hamilton, NZ

    Led the backend team on Autopilot Print and Printicular.

  4. Aug 2019 to Jun 2021

    Software EngineerMEA Mobile · Hamilton, NZ

    Autopilot Print and Printicular. The FedEx catalogue integration, the Laravel admin panel, and the JSON API behind iOS, Android and web.

  5. Jun 2018 to Aug 2019

    SEO Specialist and Software EngineerNetValue · Hamilton, NZ

    Client web apps on a custom Zend based PHP framework, WordPress and SilverStripe. Built the Laravel client portal that automated SEO reporting, pulling SEMrush metrics and parsing inbound report emails onto the right client account.

  6. Mar 2016 to Sep 2017

    Co-founderMoviko Creative · Hamilton, NZ

    Ran the agency with two others. Client acquisition, delivery, and the technical execution on Laravel and WordPress builds.

    Overlaps with the Vision College role below. I was tutoring while running the agency.

  7. Jan 2017 to Jul 2017

    Web Design and Development TutorVision College NZ · Hamilton, NZ

    Wrote and taught the web development curriculum to classes of twenty or more. Co-wrote an NZQA accredited IT operations course delivered across campuses.

  8. Jan 2011 to Jan 2016

    Freelance developerFreelance · remote, NZ

    Web and eCommerce work for clients worldwide. Built and ran a gaming server community of 100 daily players on custom Pawn game modes.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Developer

Education

  • NZ Diploma in Website Development and Design, Level 6ATC · 2016
  • NZ Diploma in Software Engineering and Design, Level 6ATC · 2015
  • First year, Bachelor of Media ArtsWintec · 2014
  • NZ Certificate in Information Technology, Level 5Wintec · 2013

Tools

Core
PHP · Laravel · MySQL · Postgres · Redis
Front end
React · TypeScript · Vue
Infrastructure
AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ElastiCache, CloudFront) · Docker · GitHub Actions
APIs and testing
REST · JSON:API · PHPUnit · Pest
Industries
CX and CCaaS · photo printing retail · real time ordering · agriculture · healthcare

Contact

ash@amehq.com