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Tom Robertshaw

Verified Expert in Engineering

Technical Architecture Developer

Location

Bath, United Kingdom

Toptal Member Since

March 7, 2017

Tom is a seasoned Magento and PHP developer who's been working with the platform since studying computer science at the University of Bath in 2008. Since graduation, he's built an agency, giving him extensive experience in entrepreneurship and leadership in addition to development.

PHP Magento Magento 1 Magento 2 Apps Chrome Extensions Machine Learning MacOS Bitbucket Jira PHP 7 Project Management Lumen Docker Heroku

Portfolio

Meanbee

PHP, Magento

ShopGo

Magento

Experience

PHP - 10 years Magento - 9 years Technical Architecture - 6 years Magento 2 - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Jira, Bitbucket, PhpStorm, Docker, MacOS

The most amazing...

...Magento extension I've built showed different CMS content depending on the customer's interests.

Work Experience

Founder

2008 - PRESENT

Meanbee

Played a part in over fifty Magento implementations.
Created numerous open source Magento extensions.
Helped companies grow 30% in revenue year on year.
Spoke around the world on responsive design and created fantastic Magento themes.
Wrote the guide on how to pass the development exam, magecert.com.

Technologies: PHP, Magento

Consultant

2015 - 2016

ShopGo

Consulted on team structure.
Gave advice on new company and product direction.
Trained the team in Agile methodologies.
Developed new product features.

Technologies: Magento

Experience

Magento Footer JavaScript Extension

https://github.com/bobbyshaw/magento-footer-js

I developed an extension that is a workaround to optimize Magento by moving JavaScript to the footer on the fly. This is typically hard to achieve because of the amount of in-line JavaScript included in Magento by default.

Skills

Languages

PHP, PHP 7, Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Platforms

Magento, Magento 1, Magento 2, MacOS, Docker, Heroku, Statamic

Other

Technical Architecture, Apps, Regular Expressions, Chrome Extensions, Product Management, Machine Learning, Service Workers

Frameworks

Lumen, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Laravel, PHPUnit

Libraries/APIs

Telegram Messenger API, Node.js

Tools

PhpStorm, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible

Paradigms

Responsive, Agile

Industry Expertise

Project Management

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science

University of Bath - Bath, UK

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