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Rich Gwilliam Full Stack Developer
Rich is a full stack developer with a love of building cool stuff with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, Linux, and all kinds of open source tech.
He's all about getting stuff done and learning new things to do it right.
Give him money and he'll probably do it for you, he's nice like that.
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- Sheffield, UK
- rich.gwilliam@gmail.com
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Amazon Lambda Functions
Lambda functions are a very specialized piece of web tech; when queried they spin up a virtualized server, perform their operation, return, and shut down again providing excellent value for very sporadic uses.
While working for a Unity agency, I moved their Laravel based Unity experience server - broadly analogous to a multi-player game server - onto a Lambda function from an EC2 server. While that's a stupid idea for an actual game server, it actually fit this very specific use case very well and transformed a £400 monthly bill into something like £20.
I've been using Amazon Lambda Functions since Jul 2022 (3 years).
Engagements using Amazon Lambda Functions
Full-stack Developer / Devops Engineer
Hidden
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023At Hidden, I filled the role of an API Developer as well as a Devops Engineer. I updated and expanded existing legacy code to run on AWS Lambda functions for increased efficiency, and created Jenkins build servers for the Unity development team.
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- LAMP Stack Admin
- Linux
- Agile
- Ops Development
- Git
- PHP
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3 Buckets
- Amazon Lambda Functions
- AWS Suite
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon Cloudflare
- Postman
- API development
- High capacity systems
- Stable Diffusion
- Figma
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- Git
- Phinx
- Database Migrations
- Jira
- Project planning
- CICD
- Jenkins
- Technical writing
- Generative AI