Stephen Rathbone

A UK based software engineer specializing in the web, PHP and node.js.

About Me

I'm an experienced, enthusiastic and talented web developer based in Nottingham, UK. I program not only as a career but also as a hobby. I'm available to hire on a freelance basis and open to employment opportunities.

I have over a decade of commercial experience and a wide set of skills. My experience ranges from working with small start-ups with sites hosted on a single, highly optimized, VPS to large companies with sites and services hosted on tens of servers with redundancy, replica sets and load-balancing.

I'm a very capable web professional that also cares about UX, tracking important metrics, optimizing based on metrics and continuously iterating and improving.

I'm very experienced with Linux system administration and sysops/devops and have set up many servers during my career. I have used Linux for over a decade, use Linux everyday as my desktop OS and consider myself a Linux enthusiast.

Skills

I have worked with many different technologies during my career and have many different skills, I have listed some, but not all, here.

  • PHP
  • HTML & CSS
  • Javascript / ECMAScript / Node.js
  • MySQL/MariaDB
  • Postgresql
  • MongoDB
  • Linux
  • SysOps
  • REST APIs
  • Docker
  • SOAP
  • eCommerce
  • GIT
  • SVN
  • SASS/LESS
  • NGINX
  • Apache
  • PHP-FPM
  • MVC
  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • Zend Framework
  • Slim Framework
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • DNS
  • Cloudflare
  • Express node.js Framework