PHP Consultant for hire
I’m a PHP backend developer/coding architect with 20+ years of experience in big and scalable systems, but also small and versatile. I have been involved in making top visitor sites in Finland. Designed their architecture and implemented them with a team from start to end. I been solving complex issues in large environments. Worked lately with money and transactions, B2B and B2C cross-country payments, receipts and documents with Payment Service Platform (PSP) integrations.
I like doing development, solving problems, helping colleagues and making things work. A customer support person. Currently working as a consultant for hire.
PHP
PHP 8.*, Laravel, Yii, Drupal, PHP Static analysis (PHPStan), PHP Codesniffer, PHPUnit / Codeception, CakePHP, Midgaard, PSP-integrations (Smilehouse, Adyen, Payment Highway), Basic Wordpress, Composer - one packagist project, XDebug.
Other programming laguages
NodeJS - 2 work projects (2y)
Scala - one work project (1y)
Python - changes to existing projects, fun projects with Raspberry PI (10y)
Java - 3 work projects, years ago (2y)
C# - one hobby project for ios
Databases
MariaDB/MySQL - Multiple big usage projects, performance optimizations
MsSQL (1 project)
MongoDB (2 projects)
PostgresSQL
IBM DB2 (One project years ago)
Oracle (University)
Tools
Workflow tools - Jira, Confluence, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Datadog, Scrum, Git, Docker, Bamboo, svn, cvs, office tools
AWS - has run one own server and have built a custom Bamboo image for running test-pipeline, also familiar with EC2, Athena, S3, Cloud Watch, etc.
Http - Nginx, Apache, Memcache, Redis, Resin
Environments - MacOS, unix, Windows, linux
Testing and Performance measuring - Jmeter, Apache Bench, Robot framework
Miscellanious
html/css, JavaScript, Bootstrap
Hobby projects
- Finnish conjugation with PHP
- Bots - plenty of Twitter-, Slack-, Mastodon- and Bluesky- bots
- Azure - running translate and speech-2-text resources there for a hobby project
- Web-crawling, integrations and apis
- tty-parser, Animated Gif for PHP
IoT-stuff:
- Arduino - Speden spelit, self driving RC-car, printer with two DVD-drives.
- Wemos (ESP8266) - integrations to solarpanel, multiple clocks with NTP-sync, PIR-lights, light with clock, moisture sensor
- Raspberry PI, sensors, buttons, Gsm-modem, DVB-T, GPS, Home Assistant
Languages
Finnish - native
English - fluent
Swedish - intermediate
German - beginner
French - beginner
Best Regards, Tuukka
