Sr Tech Lead
BORN Group
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014 · 10 mos
Chennai Area, India
This was back when BORN was still Group FMG
Worked in php in a 3 man team augmenting the MON team in Bellevue at blinkx.com after a visit there. It was being migrated from .Net.
Ported select features to Kohana / Laravel and YiiFramework, developing a statistics module in each for benchmarking so we could choose what suited us best.
Was a key player as the only developer to know both languages so would help the existing team pickup php.
Also had a taste of AWS
Worked on a Wordpress site for an energy saving company that was being migrated from Magento.
Had to understand the schema of Magento and write a Winforms app to bring it to a format that could be imported.
Found suitable plugins and architected customizations in some cases.
Skills:
Web Development System Architecture