Stefan Nesbitt
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Stirling, United Kingdom
Toptal member since February 26, 2016
Stefan started programming in 1983 and for the past 17 years he has run a freelance bespoke programming business called Turtle Design—geared towards online commercial enterprises. He signed up with Toptal in order to expand his horizons and to access a broader range of potentially interesting projects to hone his skills on.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 19 years
- PHP - 18 years
- FreeBSD - 16 years
- CoffeeScript - 2 years
- Symfony 2 - 1 year
- AngularUI - 1 year
- Silex - 1 year
- AngularJS - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Git, Sublime Text, FreeBSD, Windows
The most amazing...
...project I'm working on is an open source, schema based, generic API SDK builder.
Work Experience
Partner | Senior Developer
Turtle Design
- Created an eCommerce system from scratch, complete with full stock management and accounting facilities on the back-end.
- Created a hotel booking system that, before being sold to TUI Plc, was the largest independent London hotel booking site.
- Created a forum/help site for the British Telecom intranet in Perl (with the restriction that no external modules could be used), that, for a while, was the most used feature on their system.
- Helped create and maintain a mortgage procurement system, including complying with the stringent regulatory requirements such systems are subject to.
- Worked on dozens of website projects for clients ranging from a family renting out chalets on their farm to subcontracted development to support advertising campaigns for Pepsi and Budweiser.
Experience
Royal Mail PHP SDK
https://github.com/turtledesign/royalmail-php/Education
Bachelor of Science with Honors in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Modelling
Open University - United Kingdom
Higher National Diploma (HND) Degree in Music Performance
University of the Highlands and Islands - Perth, Scotland
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Expedia API, Doctrine, jQuery, REST APIs, jQuery DataTables, RequireJS, OpenSSL, Backbone.js, PayPal API, jQuery Plugins, jQuery UI, AngularUI
Tools
Adobe Lightroom, Git, Apache, Exim4, Sublime Text, Sentry, Zabbix, Gulp, Composer, Redmine, PhpMyAdmin, Adobe Photoshop, NPM, ClamAV, Bower, Vim Text Editor, Hudson, Grunt, Travis CI, SpamAssassin, Google Analytics
Languages
CSS, HTML, YAML, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Sass, HTML5, CSS3, CoffeeScript, XML, Bash Script, Python, Ruby, Perl, SCSS
Frameworks
Symfony, Angular, Symfony 2, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ember.js, Bootstrap 3, Scrapy, PEAR, PHPUnit, CodeIgniter, Silex, AngularJS, Kohana, Compass
Paradigms
RESTful Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Database Design
Platforms
FreeBSD, Windows, XAMPP, Joomla, WordPress
Storage
JSON, MySQL, Elasticsearch, CouchDB, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, MySQLi
Other
GitFlow, APIs, Semantic UI, ZFS, Gitolite, ProFTPD, PHPDoc, BIND9, Dovecot, Angular Bootstrap, WordPress Plugins, SFTP, WordPress Multisite, Server Administration, FTP, PSD Slicing, HTML Email, Back-end, SDKs
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