Shahbaz Tariq

• Developed GeoIP Module (varnish, fpc cache invalidation considerations)
• Wishlist Enhancements (ajax)
• HREFLANG Module (multiple websites, multiple stores)
• Unlimited Scroll Pagination
• Product Colour Set Module

• Developed highly bespoke Magento shipping module for a really high traffic website.
• Developed Givex gift card module.
• Lead developer on two consecutive successful, on time, large scale Magento projects.
• Responsible for technical documentation on both projects.
• Developed a highly commended Barclays finance module.
• Developed large bespoke integration between Magento and legacy IBM/DB2/AS400 system.
• Developed large complex personalisation module.
• Developed bespoke integration between Magento and JDE.
• Built standalone module for admin managed forms.

• Worked on a large Sainsbury's Magento project.
• Responsible for volume and performance optimisation, scaling and testing.
• Responsible for recognising bottlenecks, inefficiencies and general coding pitfalls.
• Implemented Varnish caching.
• Implemented memcache.
• Responsible for applying learnings from New Relic.
• Responsible for technical architecture and its maintenance.
• Maintaining change requests and strict deployment procedures.
• Maintaining coding standards.
• Code reviews.
• Created and maintained technical documentation.

• Extended Magento API (SOAP) to allow integration into a .NET project.
• Exposure to AWS
• Developed high availability PHP voting application for live Red Bull event.
• Developed high availability PHP application for displaying real time results.

• Exposure to Magento development.
• Developed bespoke Magento modules.
• Developed bespoke Magento themes.
• Integrated Magento with legacy systems.
• Developed and maintained company website.
• Developed responsive websites.
• Introduced version control.

• Developed with and enhanced in-house CMS system.
• Developed with and enhanced in-house ecommerce system.
• Build and maintain site from PSD templates to final go live.
• Held responsibility for multiple projects.
• Produced technical requirements/specification documents.
• Undertook Flash/ActionScript development.
• Rebuilt in-house ecommerce system with OO foundations.

• Linux
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu
• Windows 7, 8, 10
• OS X

• PHPStorm
• Sublime Text
• Notepad++
• Vagrant
• Docker
• Chrome + Chrome Dev Tools
• Terminal/Commandline
• SQLYog/MySQL Workbench
• New Relic

• PHP (Object Orientated, MVC, SOLID, DRY)
  • Magento
  • Zend
  • Symfony
  • Composer
• Node (limited)
• Server
  • System Administration
  • System Architecture
  • CentOS
  • Ubuntu
  • Apache
  • Nginx
• Database
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL (limited)
  • Oracle (limited)
  • IBM (limited)
• Cache
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • Varnish
• Web Services
  • SOAP
  • REST
• Search
  • Solr

• JavaScript
  • Vanilla/Plain JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Prototype
  • VueJS
  • Angular
  • Backbone
  • Underscore
• Package Manager
  • NPM
  • Bower
• Task Runners
  • Gulp
  • Grunt
• CSS Preprocessors
  • SASS/SCSS
  • LESS
• (X)HTML (4,5)
  • Semantic HTML
  • SEO Best Practises
• CSS (2,3)
  • Bootstrap
  • Zurb Foundation
  • PureCSS

• Git
  • Github
  • Bitbucket
• SVN

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Digital Ocean
• Linode

• Agile/Scrum
• Peer Reviews
• Pair Programming

BSc Honours in Computer Science: Web Development (2:1)

Grades A - B in English, Math, Science and Business Studies

Native, fluent, full professional proficiency.

Limited, verbal only.

Limited, verbal only.

Limited, verbal only.