Tony Vance

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ABOUT ME

Guru of Code Willing to Make You One Too

I have been a professional developer for more than 19 years using C++, MFC, C#, PHP (5 and 7), Angular JS, and numerous other technologies. I have extensive experience as a team lead, coach, and teacher.

English

Central Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)

Joined July 2018

EXPERTISE

PHP

10 years experience

I have coded PHP for 10 years with multiple frameworks including Yii, Symfony2, and Propel. I wrote an open source library that easily pu...

I have coded PHP for 10 years with multiple frameworks including Yii, Symfony2, and Propel. I wrote an open source library that easily publishes Propel models to AngularJS services using Symfony2 controllers called PropelSOA. I have worked with PHP at huge scales using Oracle for IBM Cloud including being responsible for the IBM Cloud Infrastructure billing process for 2 years.

Phpunit

7 years experience

I am excellent at unit testing and isolating code to promote testability. I teach other developers good unit testing practice, and how to...

I am excellent at unit testing and isolating code to promote testability. I teach other developers good unit testing practice, and how to use unit tests to safely refactor legacy codebases.

SQL

12 years experience

I have managed databases of various sizes for my entire career. I am proficient in good table design and knowing how to keep a clean data...

I have managed databases of various sizes for my entire career. I am proficient in good table design and knowing how to keep a clean database, which is the bedrock of any database application. At IBM Cloud I have dealth with huge data sets with billions of rows and the scaling issues that come with tables of that size.

MySQL OracleDatabase schema, database design

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

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Testability (Part 2)

Improving testability of static functionality.

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Development Manager

IBM Cloud

2013-05-01-Present

I run the core framework team responsible for functionality that doesn't fall to one particular product area. This includes our API layer...

I run the core framework team responsible for functionality that doesn't fall to one particular product area. This includes our API layer, database access and ORM, statistics generation, core framework, and software platform.

PHP

Python

Oracle

PHP

Python

Oracle

Bash

Jenkins

Composer

PHP 7

Software Product Lead and Architect

HRsmart

2008-10-01-2013-05-01

I was heavily involved in the transition of HRsmart's software to be able to publish a public API to facilitate integrations to the compa...

I was heavily involved in the transition of HRsmart's software to be able to publish a public API to facilitate integrations to the company's main product. I then led the integrations team and then the performance team for three years. I was the company's leading code teacher and mentor running training programs and creating a guild dedicated to better code than the company had previously generated.

PHP

MySQL

Bash

PHP

MySQL

Bash

jQuery UI

Smarty

Software Developer

Builders Software Enterprises

1999-06-01-2008-10-01

I was the main developer for three major versions of the BSE Estimator, a commercial application for custom homebuilders. The most recent...

I was the main developer for three major versions of the BSE Estimator, a commercial application for custom homebuilders. The most recent version was built in 2007 and was sold actively until 2015.

PHP

C++

PHP

C++