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Rich Gwilliam Full Stack Developer

Richard Gwilliam

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.

Location
Sheffield, UK
Email
rich.gwilliam@gmail.com
Website
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Javascript

On the front end, HTML tells the content what it is, CSS tells it how to dress - and Javascript teaches it to dance.

CSS3 can now transition your media between different states, animate your page, it can even rotate your cow:

But through the magic of AJAX and DOM manipulation Javascript can really bring your content to life. The current trend for SPAs (Single page applications) is impossible without JS, although you shouldn't hold that against it. Javascript, and its big brother Typescript, are the bedrock on which frameworks like Vue are built.

Gone are the days when you had to plan for how your website was going to function without JS (even though it's still a good idea). But for good reasons, a lot of commerce platforms refuse to work at all without it. In fact Javascript has gone further than that: thanks to Node.JS, Javascript now runs on a lot of back-ends.

I've been developing on it nearly my entire professional life, eighteen years at the time of writing and have no intention of stopping. While I'm not a specialist, this means while I'm designing the database what the AJAX calls will be needing and how the API needs to support it.

I've been using Javascript since May 2007 (18 years).

Engagements using Javascript

Web Developer

Pontin's Holidays

May 2007 - Jan 2008

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • Wordpress
  • Drupal

Web Developer

Russell Grant Astrology Limited

Jan 2008 - Nov 2008

  • HTML
  • PHP
  • CSS
  • Photoshop
  • Javascript
  • Drupal

Web Developer

RCKT

Nov 2008 - Apr 2010

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Photoshop
  • Fireworks
  • Jquery
  • Wordpress
  • ModX
  • ActionScript
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash
  • HTML Email
  • Magento
  • MAMP stack admin

Web Developer

Dig For Fire

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

  • HTML
  • HTML Email
  • CSS
  • Wordpress
  • Photoshop
  • Drupal
  • Wordpress
  • Javascript
  • Jquery
  • Stakeholder Interaction

Senior PHP Developer

ASL Holdings Ltd

May 2012 - Feb 2020

For ASL I developed several long-lived and high volume telemetry systems. These processed large amounts of data and delivered it for rendering in charts and tables on a daily basis.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Photoshop
  • Javascript
  • Jquery
  • API development
  • SQL
  • BASH
  • Linux
  • DataTables
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • FTP
  • Git
  • CICD
  • Technical writing

Senior Web Developer

GoSea Marine

Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  • API development
  • Vue
  • Typescript
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • Git
  • High capacity systems
  • Jira
  • CICD

Full-stack Developer / Devops Engineer

Hidden

Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

At 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.

  • HTML
  • Vue
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • 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
  • FTP
  • Git
  • Phinx
  • Database Migrations
  • Jira
  • Project planning
  • CICD
  • Jenkins
  • Technical writing
  • Generative AI

Contract Senior Full-stack Developer

Eido Healthcare

Feb 2024 - Jun 2024

Successful resurrection of a mothballed legacy Craft CMS project without documentation or input from the original developer; planning and provisioning of AWS infrastructure to support the software based on Docker images.

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • Git
  • NPM
  • Javascript
  • Craft CMS
  • Linux
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • Amazon EC2
  • AWS Suite
  • Laravel
  • Docker
  • BASH
  • Figma
  • Project planning
  • Ops Development
  • High capacity systems
  • Apache
  • Postman
  • API development
  • Technical writing

Contract Senior Full-stack Developer

Polygon

Jul 2024 - Nov 2024

Maintenance and upgrade of a legacy native PHP 5.6 API with massive data sets to provide new functionality for clients both inside and outside the company.

  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • API development
  • Postman
  • Vue
  • Apache
  • Database Migrations
  • Agile
  • Git
  • SQL
  • NPM
  • Jira
  • CICD

Contract Senior Full-stack Developer

STS Commercial

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025

Development of high-precision bespoke analytics and diagnostic modules on a Laravel base to surface opportunities and weaknesses in extremely high-volume, fast moving Fintech data and fine-tune performance for emerging markets. Innovative and intuitive modelling of data, completely revolutionizing how stakeholders analyse performance.

  • Laravel
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • PHP
  • API development
  • Vue
  • Database Migrations
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Docker
  • SQL
  • Figma
  • LAMP Stack Admin
  • BASH
  • NPM
  • NodeJS
  • Postman
  • High capacity systems
  • Ops Development
  • Jira
  • MAMP stack admin
  • Technical writing