Paul Giberson

• Lead development and support for legacy applications (Laravel 5 / PHP 7), responsible for migration to latest Laravel and PHP versions

• Implemented a highly configurable, multi-stage, build pipeline for deploying pull requests to ephemeral staging environments for disparate applications utilizing GitHub Actions, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Packer, and Python

• Collaborated within a small team to develop an online booking and reservation system using JavaScript, Next.js, and MySQL

• Lead a worldwide remote development team to build an online curriculum platform from the ground up
• Responsible for platform architecture, uptime, and orchestration
• Interfaced with internal and external stakeholders to provide technical analysis of desired features and integrations
• Sprint planning and software spec designing to enable our team to deliver on time with an emphasis on quality and reusability
• The Learning Cloud is a hybrid environment with multiple React (Next.js) applications interfacing with Laravel microservices hosted in AWS

• Oversaw system architecture, backend development, server management, and DevOps responsibilities
• Developed and managed Laravel APIs and websites
• Achieved an 85% reduction in infrastructure costs by migrating from Rackspace to a combination of Netlify and AWS
• Architectured various serverless applications using API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, MySQL (RDS), and Bref
• Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment
• Streamlined business processes by integrating automation tasks with Slack, AWS, Google Ads, Netlify, GitLab, Docusign, QuickBooks, and other platforms

• Lead team of 6 developers for Socious Product Development reporting to CTO
• Planned weekly sprints utilizing Kanban to fix bugs and add features with a weekly release cycle
• Worked with integration of Socious AMS to Higher Logic platform via SOAP

(Higher Logic acquired Socious in January 2017)

• Rapidly built and prototyped new features and bug fixes
• Shepherded development team from 2 to 6 engineers 
• Managed major technological changes such as version control (git), branching strategies, code review, software upgrades, IDE changes, hardware advancements
• Built and maintained several high visibility components of the Socious platform. Also rearchitected Ajax and JavaScript workflows
• Traditional LAMP stack with supporting Java services

• Independently wrote a PHP (Zend Framework 1) based web application for interacting with production code and server management. Application was in production for more than seven years
• Bare metal to cloud server migrations, SQL/Data Backup Strategies (Replication, EC2, S3 Archiving)