Kasey W.

"Kasey was one of the best people I have ever worked with on Upwork." -Daniel "Working with Kasey was a breeze." - M. “I'm very grateful this was a stress-free experience in spite of my lack of understanding of what I was really asking for.” - Rebecca “I would hire Kasey again in a heartbeat. He works fast and communicates effectively. More than that, he keeps the end goal in mind.” - D. All too often, hiring a developer (front-end, back-end, or full stack) ends up with you feeling like you have hired another employee that needs to be managed. When, what you really want is an adept professional that understands that technology is a tool that your business uses to deliver value to your audience. There are many developers that are reliable, adaptable, and competent. Though, sometimes what you need to solve your technology challenges is a team member that can help you think through the project while keeping the business goals in mind. Someone that won’t just say ‘yes’ to everything you suggest but will offer constructive criticism and suggestions to help the project, and your business, succeed. Will adding that new social feature be nice? I’m sure it would. But does it add enough value to the end user to justify the costs of building, implementing, and maintaining it? Or worse, does it distract your customers from your primary USP? If your ‘addon’ features take away from the core product offering, it can make your service less desirable. Automating customer data retrieval for support staff sounds like a great idea. It will save you time and cut the cost of all the man hours spent switching back and forth between marketing and support platforms with every customer interaction. But if the project isn’t scoped or planned correctly, building, maintaining, and extending it later will be painful and costly. Situations like the ones above are only a couple examples of issues I’ve helped Clients successfully resolve. So, if you are in need of a full stack developer with an eye for the business goals your technology is helping to accomplish, I’d like to chat with you a bit more about your team and project. All the Best, - Kasey PS. As a developer, I mainly work with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP ( LAMP stack). However, I am happy to be flexible and adapt to other libraries, languages, or environments that your team uses. Technologies I work with are as follows: PHP with experience in: - MVC Architecture - Object Oriented Programming (OOP) - Laravel Framework - Eloquent - WordPress - RESTful APIs (HelpScout, Klaviyo, Thinkific, Active Campaign, Google APIs and more) - WebServices SQL with experience in: - MySQL, MSSQL - Stored Procedures - Design and Optimization - Data Warehouses - Data Analytics - OLAP, OLTP - Data Modeling Git, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, LESS JS with experience in: - AJAX - jQuery - MongoDB - NodeJS Limited Experience in: - Angular, EmberJS, Ionic Framework Servers: - Apache2, CouchDB, - Shell, Bash - Configuration - Heroku, DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS