About

Charles Tanton

KEY QUALITIES AND SKILLS

Honest, reliable, hard-working, self-sufficient and professional.

18 years of website building experience.

A well rounded developer, with a broad and strong foundation in the full stack of web technologies, from system administration, developer tools, backend and frontend technologies, as well as design, able to tackle the wide variety of issues that one encounters in an ever-changing field.

In-depth working knowledge of Drupal as a content management platform due to more than 13 years of Drupal experience (https://www.drupal.org/user/27895).

Experience communicating and interacting with website stakeholders. In the last few of years I have worked as a developer in a couple of teams and was able to apply myself to the remote team working paradigm, being part of daily standups and using Slack and Jira.

Founding member of the Drupal Johannesburg User Group, and currently an active member of the Cape Town group, having served on the committee in 2011. Minor contributions to the Drupal core and contrib issue queues, creating patches, rerolls and patch reviews. Up to date with Drupal best practices and trends.

NOTABLE AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Drupal development, migrations, theming, site building, configuration management, PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript and Drush. Competent using Git and GitHub workflow, Bootstrap, Composer, Drupal Console, npm, gulp, Compass & SASS, SVG, Linux command line, PHPStorm (and Xdebug debugging), browser developer tools, Docker, Varnish, Adobe Creative Suite, React, Slack, Jira.

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