Philip Bennett
Verified Expert in Engineering
Leadership Developer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since April 30, 2018
Phil is an experienced web developer with 17 years of experience in PHP and WordPress. Focusing on high-quality hyper-performance deliveries, Phil is a pragmatic technologist who chooses the right technology and applies it effectively to deliver projects on time and on budget. Phil has a balanced full-stack knowledge and is currently delivering WordPress based site for large multinational companies.
Portfolio
Experience
- PHP - 18 years
- WordPress - 10 years
- Leadership - 7 years
- Project Management - 7 years
- Symfony - 6 years
- Drupal - 6 years
- JavaScript - 4 years
- Laravel - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
WebStorm, PhpStorm, IntelliJ IDEA, LAMP, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...project turnaround I've ever managed was a full fashion event website from concept to launch in less than two weeks.
Work Experience
Technical Lead
Bleech GmbH
- Led teams building WordPress sites for large enterprise companies, including Mercedes Benz, Zalando, and Smart.
- Developed advanced web components using modern JavaScript methods.
- Created WordPress APIs extending the core WordPress JSON-API.
- Built a set of reusable website components in standardized styles to allow for reuse and hyper-performant delivery.
- Managed DevOps on the project, deployment, server setup, and infrastructure planning.
Web Team Lead
Carswell Gould
- Led a successful web team delivering medium to large Drupal projects for enterprise and government clients.
- Developed bespoke Drupal integrations into legacy and bespoke APIs/systems.
- Managed Agile delivery projects, setting up and planning sprints.
- Managed the sales process for £100,000+ projects, pitching and winning the work.
- Managed and maintained support contracts and SLAs with clients.
- Built WordPress campaign sites.
Owner/Director
HolgaRama
- Managed, built, and ran a successful eCommerce business selling photography equipment.
- Managed performance of digital marketing campaigns.
- Managed the server, system, operations, and infrastructure.
- Sourced, purchased, and imported products for sale.
- Set up advanced billing APIs.
Freelance PHP Web Developer
Bennett Enable
- Worked with billing APIs setting up complex billing systems.
- Built custom web applications using PHP MVC frameworks, focusing on building MVC for startup tech companies.
- Supported numerous marketing agencies with client WordPress builds including full builds as well as maintenance and support for the current build.
- Built and managed Magneto web stores.
- Developed a WordPress plugin for an event management system.
Information Artchitect
BT (British Telecom)
- Designed data warehouse projects for large call volume database.
- Trained and built neural networks to find unusual data patterns for reasons of national security.
- Managed and controlled schema documents and change requests for large and complex databases.
Freelance Web Developer/Designer
Philip Bennett
- Built websites for SMEs and local businesses.
- Built advertising tracking systems using Perl/CGI.
- Designed a website for small businesses.
Experience
Gutenplatz
Neonwood/Tannhaus Apartments
https://neonwood.com/Platform: WordPress
Technologies: Salesforce Forms, Benchmark Email, Flynt
Mercedes Benz Parts Wholesale
Holzmarktplatz
https://www.holz-kauf.de/Elliotts
https://elliotts.uk/Tektura Wall Coverings
http://www.tektura.com/Software is Easy, People are Hard
https://www.softwareiseasypeoplearehard.comEducation
Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Information Technology
University of Wales - Swansea
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, WordPress REST API, PayPal API
Tools
Composer, Gulp, Behat, NPM, Webpack, IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, WebStorm, PyroCMS, Erwin, Stylus, Swipe, Grunt
Languages
CSS, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), SQL, HTML, CoffeeScript
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ionic 3, Ionic, Bootstrap, Bootstrap 3, ZURB Foundation, PhoneGap, Symfony, Laravel, Angular, Laravel Spark, Yii, PHPUnit
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Agile, Component-based Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Responsive Layout
Platforms
WordPress, Drupal, Magento, LAMP, Oracle, PHP-Nuke, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
WordPress Plugins, Leadership, WordPress Themes, Web Components, Sales, Cafelog b2
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