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Hi, my name is

RetroChaos

I make things using web technologies.

Ambitious and highly motivated individual striving to create excellent quality code and implement forward-thinking, scalable solutions. Predominately self-taught with an eagerness to keep learning and improving my work and myself.

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About Me

Experience

Full-Stack Web Developer

Wayland Games

July 2020 - Present

I took over the internal role as sole developer, previously maintaining a Prestashop storefront (backend and frontend) as well as curating and implementing new internal tools to solve complex business needs, utilising APIs and SQL connections to communicate between different data sources. I also created and deployed a multitude of brochure websites for our internal studio and their tabletop games, using CraftCMS. Finally, I most recently created a new storefront on Magento using the Hyva theme and checkout, and extended it to suit Wayland's unique business needs for the platform.

Education

GCSEs

Greensward Academy

Sep 2010 - Jul 2015

11 GCSEs all A*-B including A* in Mathematics; As in Biology, Chemistry & Physics (triple science), Computer Science, English Language & Literature; Bs in PE, RE, Spanish and Geography.

AS-Level

Greensward Academy

Sep 2015 - Jul 2016

B in Computer Science (Self-Taught) & C in Chemistry

A-Level

Greensward Academy

Sep 2015 - Jul 2017

BBC in Mathematics, Economics & Physics

Skills

  • Proficient in creating high-quality, concise, readable, and efficient code in PHP adhering to PSR-12 standards.
  • Skilled in understanding complex databases and using SQL to perform CRUD operations as required.
  • Adhering to MVC and MVVM design principles.
  • Use of Composer to install and manage dependencies in complex projects, such as those in Magento and Symfony.
  • Comfortable on both Linux-based and Windows-based environments.
  • Recent self-taught work on how the Hyva Theme & Hyva Checkout work, and creating and implementing a custom solution.
  • Recent self-taught work on how Magento functions as a codebase.
  • Creation of simple websites using HTML, CSS, JS and GraphQL.

Projects

  • I completed my own Survival Horror game titled "Fear of the Dark" which I released onto the Steam and Google Play stores.
  • I forked and rewrote a Trustpilot PHP API library to be compliant with Guzzle 7.