What I do
PHP / Symfony / Laravel
Testing
Writing and maintain tests that are run as part of the CI/CD pipeline to minimise issues in live environments.
AWS / DevOps
Docker
Version Control
Documentation / Scoping
Analysing requirements for new features and change requests and documenting these requirements for the team to be able to prioritise.
Latest Blog Posts
SQS Queue: How many messages have been received?
Using the CloudWatch API and the AWS CLI to get the number of messages received this week by a particular queue
Using Tailwind CSS with Symfony Encore
Configure your Symfony application to use TailwindCSS and create beautiful looking applications using pre-built UI components
Docker Logs - Tail logs and only show new entries
Follow the log entries for a docker container and ignore everything that came before, i.e. tail the log entries from the end of the log file rather than the start.
Testimonials
Chris was an invaluable member of the team during his time at The Drum. He provided great technical leadership and worked incredibly hard to move the company's technical stack forward.
He also had a really broad experience which helped us with our general infrastructure and approach to analytics.
Christopher's skills with code, back-end infrastructure and basically every facet of digital product development are unrivalled.
There is simply nothing the man does not know about, and during our time at the Drum he helped give this lowly designer a peek behind the curtains on what really goes on within Docker containers, Apache server setups and PHP environments.
On top of everything he is friendly, approachable and eager to teach. A true gentleman.
Chris has been central to the success of the Herald & Times Group sites over the past two years. From a starting point in Jan 2013 when our servers were running at full capacity and couldn't handle more traffic, Chris implemented a number of changes that improved performance, increased reliability and more than doubled our server capacity without incurring any costs.
While Chris's core skills lie in PHP and MySQL, his wide-ranging skill set and capacity for learning has helped us in everything from Javascript coding to iPhone app development.
Featured Projects
Password Angel - Share passwords, API keys, credentials and more with secure, single-use links.
Share passwords, API keys, credentials and more with secure, single-use links.
Done Log - The to-do list alternative
Done Log is a productivity tool that records all the tasks you have completed instead of reminding you of all the tasks that are waiting for you.
DevObs
DevObs is a collection of development tools providing monitoring and notifications services to keep your website, api and services up and running. The tools within this collection are inspired by problems encountered regularly during day-to-day development.
EM😀JI P💩SSWORD GENERAT🚫R 🔥
Create passwords with emojis 🔥 - What emojis will be in your password?