ben rowe

software engineer

About

I have over 15 years of professional dev/ops experience. I love building functional and usable applications, using the appropriate technologies to solve the problem. For most of my career i've focused on the full PHP stack, including modern mvc frameworks such as Laravel, Yii, Symfony and Zend. I've also had several years experience with other front & backend languages such as .NET, ruby & Java, and from simple html5, jquery & css to scss, angularjs, bootstrap, etc. I'm highly motivated and always looking to improve my skills and techniques. In more recent times I've started a passion towards good usability of applications. I like knowing the person on the other end enjoys the application as much as I enjoy developing it. Specialties: application design & development, database design, service integration, front-end dev & ui/ux design, php, .net, sql, jquery. My core skills include team management, application architecture and coding.

Country

australia

City

sydney

Industry

internet

Skill

php, devops, web development, yii, laravel, html 5, jquery, mysql, scss, user interface design, user experience, .net, database design, sql, software development, zend framework, ecommerce, apache, server administration, rabbitmq, mongodb, redis, git, angularjs, bootstrap, client communication, c#, lumen, server configuration, seo, web application design, sdlc, technical analysis, css, magento, javascript, open systems architecture, cakephp, mvc, front end, web applications, java, cms, docker, vue.js, agile methodologies, unified modeling language, golang, react.js, vue

Experience

lead developer

fatpublisher

2008-9 - 2009-8 · 1 yr

Development of Client Websites using an in-house development framework and css built in php & mysql

lead developer

techbuy ltd

2002-5 - 2007-5 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Developed & maintained several php-based applications (siteworks, mailworks, editworks, helpworks pro). Developed & maintained internal accounting software. Server maintainance. Sales & Support of software

technical lead

willow

2018-4 - 2018-9 · 6 mos

senior software engineer

switch media

2017-4 - 2017-9 · 6 mos

* My major responsibilities include: * maintaining and modernising API's for Foxtel and other vendors * Scope, research and implement solutions for new clients * Suggest and implement new development processes and guidelines

software engineer

chuffed.org

technician lead

tomorrow finance

2015-9 - 2017-4 · 1 yr 8 mos

* My major responsibilities include: * Recruiting & Building a team from scratch. * implementing new development procedures & best practises. * Converting and modernising legacy framework & system into laravel. * Support BAU work. * Working with various stakeholders within the company to identify missing functionality, planning and implementation.

digital developer

southern cross austereo

2009-9 - 2011-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Work on large scale internal and public facing development projects

senior software engineer

kounta

2017-9 - 2018-3 · 7 mos

lead backend engineer

whispli

2018-11 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

technician lead

aussiebum

2013-2 - 2015-9 · 2 yrs 8 mos

I was responsible for developing & maintaining the ecommerce platform as well as the internal platforms for logistics (processing, shipping, stock & warehouse management), production as well as the day to day IT management. I managed a team of 5 developers to keep the business operational. During my time I helped modernise the existing code bases, add new sales/ecommerce functionality, introduce new development practises.

lead developer

helpwise

2007-6 - 2008-8 · 1 yr 3 mos

* My primary role was building additional components for oscommerce to extend its functionality for both the client facing retail website, as well as building additional components within the platform to support it's fairly simplistic front end. * I also built applications in flex (flash) and .net * implement new development tools and practises such as version control (SVN)

senior developer

arinex pty ltd

2011-9 - 2012-12 · 1 yr 4 mos

I was responsible for core application development for both internal and client use. My primary focus was to build the application eOrganiser to manage abstract & program management for conferences.