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Martin Hughes

Bio

Full name: Martin Hughes

Location: Leeds, UK

Account created: 37 years ago

Github:github.com/martinph

LinkedIn:martinhughes1

GitHub

Profile

Martin is an experienced full-stack web developer based in Leeds with over 19 years of professional experience.

He is proficient in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Linux, and also server management.

Experience in dealing directly with clients to extract vital project information to ensure a smooth project delivery.

Approachable with a great sense of humour. Self-proclaimed geek, loves tinkering with computer hardware, and enjoys the odd coffee now and then.

Attributes

PHP/JS/CSS100%
Web Services100%
Linux/Server Management100%
Amazon Web Services100%
Friendliness100%
Height80%
Attack6%
Defence78%
Geekiness100%

Current Quest

Technical DirectorEasyodds Ltd

topresent• 3 yrs 5 mos
  • Working with stakeholders to evolve the platform into a PaaS delivery
  • Working with in-house and contract developers for smooth operations
  • Continued hands on development to help deliver projects
  • Working with partners to consume tens of thousands of data points every day.

Completed Quests

Head of DevelopmentEasyodds Ltd

to• 1 yr 5 mos
  • Managing team of contract developers to ensure project delivery
  • Working with stakeholders to delivery goals
  • Working with infrastructure team to ensure scalability and stability
  • Scoping, planning and organising project features
  • Hands-on development to deliver projects
  • Structuring an agile workflow across the development team.

Lead DeveloperDealTrak

to• 7 mos
  • Providing guidance and training to other developers to upskill
  • Working with the lead architect to help shape the future development of the platform
  • Reporting to management progress and team metrics.

Senior DeveloperDealTrak

to• 1 yr 11 mos
  • Adoption of Ansible throughout the development team to deploy to UAT and production environments, as well as common day-to-day tasks
  • Leading sprint teams and providing guidance and support for junior and mid-developers
  • Involvement in the scoping and planning of new projects
  • Moved from unsafe web service authentication to a safer, encrypted and more manageable system.

Senior PHP Developeraql Telecommunications

to• 2 yrs 8 mos
  • Development of free public Wi-Fi captive-portal software across Leeds City Centre and Leeds-Bradford Airport
  • Development and maintenance of SMPP services with a throughput of over 600,000 B2C text messages per day
  • Development of call-data record mediation services to facilitate billing operations for VoIP customers
  • Introduction and company-wide adoption of statsd/graphite/grafana software to provide application metrics.

Senior Systems Developer9xb Ltd

to• 9 yrs 4 mos
  • Develop and provide on-going maintenance for the framework behind all studio projects to give them a head start
  • Server management of several dedicated RHEL LAMP servers and cloud systems
  • Helping recruitment process by providing a technical review role.
  • Moving the entire development process to a more structured and modular way of developing software through the use of OOP and MVC architecture
  • Provide technical input to the scoping and specification stage of projects.