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David Duggins

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Last update: 01.02.2024

Backend Developer (PHP, Rails) / DevOps Platform Engineer

Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Native or Bilingual) | Russian (Full Professional)

Attachments

duggins-FS-resume_310124.pdf

Skills

A skilled developer with experience in PHP and Ruby on Rails developement.  I have decades experience in taking projects over that need a little extra somthing and pushing them across the line to completion. I am an Architect and Platform Engineer with countless hours of experience working on prem as well as in the cloud.

Project history

10/2021 - 12/2021
Senior PHP Developer
Dominion Diagnostics (Pharmaceuticals and medical technology)

Worked on a team of developers to convert legacy php into a modern Laravel Dasboard with a React front end.

10/2020 - 05/2021
PHP/SecOps, Risk Engineering
Etsy (Consumer goods and retail)

Worked on various projects related to site wide security.

03/2019 - 01/2020
WordPress Consultant
OpenText/Hightail (Other)

Created a custom WordPress theme based on the designs given.

08/2019 - 12/2019
Senior PHP Developer
Sentry Data Systems (Pharmaceuticals and medical technology)

Worked on a project upgrading the company's web application.  Searched for elements in the code base that would be affected by upgrades to: PHP, the Symfony Framework, and jQuery.

10/2018 - 09/2019
PHP Developer and Platform Engineer
Financial Times (Media and Publishers)

Worked on modernizing a series of legacy applications.  Containerized them and created infrastructure and pipelines to run them on AWS platform.

09/2013 - 09/2018
PHP Developer, Platform Engineer
OpenText (Internet and Information Technology)

Maintained the companies WordPress sites and systems.  Ran the servers, updated software.  Created themes and plugins.  Migrations of sites to new systems. Managed 90+ Wordpress sites.

02/2014 - 07/2015
CTO
Alumnify (Other)

Worked at an early stage start up.  Developed a POC for a Alumni Engagement Platform. Advised the founders and assisted in building a small team

01/2013 - 08/2013
System Architect, Platform Engineer
Comporium Communication (Telecommunications)

Was a consulting architect working on a POS system. Assisted pricipal architect in setting up PHP.  Helped in the adoption of a Git workflow for the team and developed development environments as well as deplyment pipelines

09/2012 - 01/2013
Senior PHP Developer
Pace Communications (Media and Publishers)

Worked with a team to convert an older WordPress theme into a newer template system.  Made plugins to support various aspects of the new theme as well as wrote code to automate the conversion of older posts to the newer system

05/2012 - 07/2012
PHP Developer
South Carolina Budget and Control Board (Public service)

Built a system to manage invoicing and contracts for the SC State Office of Engineering.

11/2010 - 01/2012
Rails Developer
Political Exchange (Other)

Worked on a POC for a political social networking and campaign management site.

03/2010 - 10/2010
Lead Develoer
Root Loud (Other)

Worked on various sites and projects in PHP, Rails, JavaScript and VB for an agency that specialized in eLearning tools.

10/2009 - 02/2010
Lead Developer
Leveraged Media (Marketing, PR and Design)

Wrote a web application for a marketing Startup.

Local Availability

Only available for remote work
I am currently in the process of moving to the Netherlands while my daughter goes to university. So I will be available on site to more locations as needed. A pre diem will need to be negotiated if I have to spend longer then a day or two away from home!
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