Chris Curzon
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Tokyo, Japan
Toptal member since October 9, 2018
Chris is a professional software engineer with 20+ years of industry experience. He has worked on projects for Sony, Disney, Turner, and BBC. He is experienced in both back-end and front-end technologies, with hands-on experience on large-scale bespoke CMS and UGC deployments, as well as browser-based games. Most of Chris' recent work has used JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and Java, but he is capable with many other languages as well.
Portfolio
Experience
- Windows - 20 years
- Linux - 20 years
- JavaScript - 20 years
- PHP - 15 years
- LAMP - 15 years
- MySQL - 15 years
- Apache - 10 years
- MongoDB - 5 years
Preferred Environment
NPM, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), LAMP, Jenkins, Git, Xdebug
The most amazing...
...project I've coded is an MMORPG fantasy band manager game and community which enabled three happy marriages and a lot of new friendships.
Work Experience
Lead Programmer
Jollywise Media
- Created an in-house PHP/JS framework which has been used to build a large number (50+) of projects.
- Built an in-house tracking system which has tracked over 30 billion impressions.
- Investigated and implemented deployment processes using Git, Jenkins, and AWS.
- Developed an in-house CRM system which was subsequently licensed to other clients.
- Supported various legacy systems using Angular, ASP, and Flash ActionScript.
Lead Programmer
Kerb Ltd
- Wrote an MMORPG game which had a maximum of 30,000 active players, with a friendly community who helped advance the game by suggesting new features.
- Wrote an in-house tracking system web stats system in Java which tracked over 200 million impressions.
- Gave a number of well-received talks at Microsoft ReMix, Flash on the Beach, and the SAE Institute.
- Installed and maintained Windows and Linux servers on an internet backbone provider.
- Wrote a large number of web games and digital marketing apps using various technologies, as well as an in-house online clothing store.
Experience
Project Rockstar
Muppets Mahna-Mahna
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree with First Class Honors in Music Informatics
Sussex University - Brighton, UK
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Facebook API
Tools
NGINX, Composer, Jenkins, Subversion (SVN), Git, Apache, Phing, Xdebug, NPM
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, Java, Flash ActionScript, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Paradigms
Class-based OOP, Prototype-based OOP
Platforms
LAMP, NetBeans, Linux, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server
Frameworks
CodeIgniter, Laravel, Angular, PHPUnit, JUnit
Other
Audio, GitFlow, Shell Commands
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