Luke Watts ⚡️

Personal Statement

Full-stack web developer with 10 years of experience in MySQL, PHP, and Javascript. Strong commitment to TDD and BDD (PHPUnit, Behat, Codeception, Jasmine, Mocha), DevOps practices such as CI/CD (Jenkins, Travis, Scrutinizer), and containerization (Docker). I enjoy learning new tools, techniques, and frameworks. I am always on the lookout for tools that save time and lead to better code readability, performance, security and scalability.

Experience

Full-stack Web Developer

October 2024 to Present at ClearChoice.ie

Developing data pipelines.

Senior Software Engineer

June 2022 to November 2023 at Zoom (Workvivo), Cork, Ireland

Developing full-stack solutions using MySQL, Laravel, AWS, and React from beginning to end, through Code Review, QA, and release. Using Laravel, I have worked frequently with Eloquent, Notifications, and Command/Jobs functionality to create scalable, automated running of background tasks.

Full-stack Web & Automation Developer

June 2017 to May 2022 at Three Ireland, Limerick, Ireland

Developed full-stack solutions using MySQL, PHP (CakePHP), and Javascript (jQuery, ReactJS) which integrated with many third-party APIs using REST and SOA. Worked heavily with the import, export and back-up of data across numberous systems, languages and databases. Developed a number of automation solutions using UiPath RPA.

Company Founder

October 2014 to Feb 2017 at Affinity4

Founded a web development company which provided web development services to a number of clients. Developed full-stack solutions using MySQL, PHP (Wordpress, Laravel, SlimPHP), and Javascript (jQuery, ReactJS) for small to medium-sized businesses. Worked with clients to develop a responsive web-based solution that met their needs and provided a good user experience. Our services included web design, web development, web hosting, SEO, marketing, and graphic design.

Certifications

UiPath RPA Associate

2019

FETAC LEVEL 6 Train the Trainer

2014

ORACLE CERTIFIED MySQL Developer (5.7)

2012

ADOBE CERTIFIED Photoshop (CS5.5)

2011

Publications

Mastering Sass (Packt Publishing)

August 2016

In 2016, Packt publishing contracted me to write a 300-page book on SCSS. The book is a comprehensive, advanced guide on creating responsive, cross-browser, enterprise-scale UIs using Sass (SCSS) and the Compass framework. (All of this was before variables and the likes were possible in raw CSS)

Skills

Backend

  • MySQL, MariaDB
  • PHP (5, 7, 8+)
  • Go (1.10)
  • Laravel
  • TDD, BDD
  • PHPUnit, Pest
  • Codeception
  • REST
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Vagrant
  • Git
  • Github
  • Gitlab
  • Bitbucket

Frontend

  • React (16, 18+)
  • NPM
  • Yarn
  • Vite
  • Webpack
  • Cypress
  • Jasmine
  • Mocha
  • Tailwind
  • Bootstrap
  • Sass/Scss
  • BEM
  • Remix
  • RegEx
  • Astro