Adam Elsodaney

Hardly Ever Worn It - Marylebone, London

Senior Developer [ November 2020 - present ] [ permanent ]

• Developing the new online marketplace using Sylius as the platform that will eventually replace the current one.

OnBuy.com - Poole, Dorset

Web Developer [ September 2020 - November 2020 ] [ permanent ]

• Add new cronjobs and backend processes in their custom PHP framework; one such process was the automated tagging of products based on category and keywords.
• This data was managed between MySQL, Couchbase, RabbitMQ and Solr.

Kurt Geiger - Farringdon, London

Senior Engineer II [ February 2019 - September 2020 ] [ permanent ]

• Maintainence and upgrades of the CRM system used by Customer Service Representatives, an API powered by Symfony 3.4 and Splunk.
• Graph database design (Neo4J, Gremlin, AWS Neptune) modelling customers and orders across all of Kurt Geiger's online and physical stores.
• Typescript and Jest development of the CLI application for the new graph database import runner.

AGC Partners / Veruscript - North Kensington, London

Lead Web Developer (Technical Manager) [ August 2017 - December 2018 ] [ permanent ]

• Consolidation of the Veruscript VPC on AWS. (Subnets, Routing Tables, NAT Gateway, Bastion, Security Groups)
• Rebuilding the public-facing "marketing" and journal publication website in Symfony (previously in Angular 1 + prerender.io)
• Maintenance of the PDF generator (Pandoc, LaTeX).
• Setting up review apps in Heroku, so developers can test their work before merging PRs.
• Reviewing developer PRs, pair-programming, JIRA project management, scheduling sprints.
• Deployment via ElasticBeanstalk, release management, creating changelogs, preparing fixed predicable release cycles.
• Consolidating SQL and Elasticsearch schemas so that one is an suitable replica of the other, rather than being two unique sources.

REISS - Fitzrovia, London

Senior Web Developer [ January 2016 - July 2017 ] [ permanent ]

The reiss.com website was rebuilt from scratch, and launched with success on September 2016. The site now runs on the Sylius E-Commerce stack.

• Working on the Checkout and Payment sections of the website, integrating with Givex, PayPal and PayPoint MPI.
• Developing various means of bespoke authenication methods hooked into the Symfony Security Component.
• New features to help the Merchanding team arrange products more efficiently on the site.
• Created frontend Data Layer that tracking and analytics scripts can hook into.
• All code is usually written with PhpSpec beforehand and with Behat.

Wireless Logic - Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Software Developer [ August 2015 - January 2016 ] [ contractor ]

• Introduced Behat and PhpSpec to an existing Symfony codebase; Maintainence of Jenkins server.
• Worked on new reporting dashboard, using Sylius ReportBundle and HighCharts.
• Intregrated with new Mobile Network Operators and their APIs.

Lumeon (formerly Qinec) - Waterloo, London

PHP App Developer [ January 2015 - August 2015 ] [ contractor ]

• Introduced Symfony HttpKernel to legacy site.
• Introduced new tests and repaired PHPUnit setup.
• Created MySQL data import script from one medical insurance client's database who wanted to use our application going forward.

feelunique.com - Holborn, London

Web Developer [ January 2014 - January 2015 ] [ contractor ]

• Refactoring legacy PHP code to a new Symfony application and calling these controllers and services from the legacy application.
• Practicing behavior driven development with Behat for web acceptance tests and PhpSpec for unit tests.
• Pair programming with permanent staff and with SensioLabs/Inviqa contractors, including one of the core contributors to Symfony.
• Working to two-week Agile sprints.
• Convert existing CSS to Sass partials, mixins and variables and defining a style guide to allow for white-labeling of the site.
• Establishing a front-end framework integrating Sass partials with the JavaScript plugin system and using Twig macros.

Nerv - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Lead Back-End Web Developer [ July 2013 - November 2013 ] [ contractor ]

Clients include Archant, AstraZeneca, Clipper Ventures and Topshop

• Building a native mobile app builder and CMS in Symfony2 integrated with PhoneGap, covered by PHPUnit tests.
• Setting up an automated and continuously integrated build, test and deployment server using Ubuntu, Jenkins, Bitbucket and Capistrano.
• Maintaining existing CodeIgniter project and a Laravel 4 project connected to MongoDB and IronMQ.