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RetroChaos

PHP Developer Specialising In Ecommerce.

Symfony | Laravel | Magento

I build and maintain ecommerce platforms end to end, from Magento storefronts and custom PHP applications to the Linux servers they run on.

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About Me

Experience

Senior Web Developer

Wayland Games

September 2026 - Current

As our team has expanded, I have taken on more of a mentorship and leadership role within the company, providing valuable technical insight and making key architectural decisions on large projects. I remain hands-on with day-to-day development, using AI-assisted workflows to speed up delivery while reviewing every change to keep code quality high.

Web Developer

Wayland Games

July 2020 - August 2026

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

A-Levels

Greensward Academy

Sep 2015 - Jul 2017

BBC in Mathematics, Economics & Physics; AS-Level B in Computer Science (Self-Taught) & C in Chemistry

GCSEs

Greensward Academy

Sep 2010 - Jul 2015

11 GCSEs at A*-B, including A* in Mathematics and A in Computer Science

Skills

Languages

  • PHP
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • GraphQL

Platforms

  • Magento
  • Hyvä Theme & Checkout
  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • PrestaShop
  • CraftCMS

Tools

  • Composer
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Linux

PSR-12 compliant PHP following MVC and MVVM design principles, with a strong grasp of complex databases and SQL.

Linux & Server Administration

  • Writing Bash scripts to automate deployments, backups and routine server tasks.
  • Hardening Linux servers, including securing SSH, configuring firewalls and managing users and permissions.
  • Deploying and configuring LAMP stacks (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for production websites.
  • Setting up and maintaining SSL/TLS certificates to serve sites securely over HTTPS.

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.