Chris Collins's Portfolio

I am a Cardiff-based software professional, currently employed as Software Delivery Manager at Box UK, having graduated from The University Of Wales, Swansea with a BSc in Computer Science (2:1) in 2006.

I have sixteen years commercial experience working in technical leadership and back-end/front-end web development. I have an in depth knowledge of the whole software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to design, implementation and testing and have successfully led many large commercial projects. I have a broad knowledge of industry standard methodologies such as TDD, design patterns and Agile (Scrum) and am an effective mentor to less experienced developers. I have keen interests in the areas of software architecture, code quality and testing.

I specialise in web development - primarily PHP, MySQL, JS, HTML and CSS - and have experience of building applications and websites with frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, Zend Framework and Ruby On Rails. I also have worked with other languages, including: Ruby, C#, Java, C++ and ASP.NET.

Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my young son, as well as pursuing my interests in football, playing the piano and guitar. I also enjoy watching films and photography, as well as coding in my spare time. Finally, I keep fit by playing badminton and going to the gym.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have and I'll be happy to answer them.