Hi, I’m Richard Gwilliam — a resourceful, experienced full‑stack web developer with 18+ years in the field. I blend solid front‑end craft with robust back‑end design, DevOps practices, and a practical, collaborative mindset. I’m comfortable in a team setting or working as a self‑managed, autonomous consultant, delivering readable, maintainable code and elegant solutions to production challenges. I pride myself on strong written communication and a willingness to learn and adapt. I’ve freelanced as a proofreader, stay current with PHP, Laravel, Vue, AWS, Docker, and modern CMS stacks, and I bring empathy, responsibility and a calm, proactive problem‑solving approach to every project — even in remote work environments.

Richard Gwilliam

Hi, I’m Richard Gwilliam — a resourceful, experienced full‑stack web developer with 18+ years in the field. I blend solid front‑end craft with robust back‑end design, DevOps practices, and a practical, collaborative mindset. I’m comfortable in a team setting or working as a self‑managed, autonomous consultant, delivering readable, maintainable code and elegant solutions to production challenges. I pride myself on strong written communication and a willingness to learn and adapt. I’ve freelanced as a proofreader, stay current with PHP, Laravel, Vue, AWS, Docker, and modern CMS stacks, and I bring empathy, responsibility and a calm, proactive problem‑solving approach to every project — even in remote work environments.

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Hi, I’m Richard Gwilliam — a resourceful, experienced full‑stack web developer with 18+ years in the field. I blend solid front‑end craft with robust back‑end design, DevOps practices, and a practical, collaborative mindset. I’m comfortable in a team setting or working as a self‑managed, autonomous consultant, delivering readable, maintainable code and elegant solutions to production challenges.

I pride myself on strong written communication and a willingness to learn and adapt. I’ve freelanced as a proofreader, stay current with PHP, Laravel, Vue, AWS, Docker, and modern CMS stacks, and I bring empathy, responsibility and a calm, proactive problem‑solving approach to every project — even in remote work environments.

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Work Experience

Senior PHP Developer at ASL Holdings
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2014
Sole developer of efficient, feature-rich and reliable telemetry applications collecting millions annually. This involved addressing challenging and unexpected user requirements in a proactive and positive manner, adapting to fit the requirements of the project and open-minded problem solving.
Senior PHP Developer at ASL Holdings
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Sole developer of efficient, feature-rich and reliable telemetry applications collecting millions annually. This involved addressing challenging and unexpected user requirements in a proactive and positive manner, adapting to fit the requirements of the project and open-minded problem solving.
Senior PHP Developer at Obitus / Vivedia
June 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021
Renovation of a full-featured native PHP monolith into a slick, efficient and nimble microservice-based architecture around a Laravel core. Support of junior developers, participation in a well‑oiled Scrum machine producing high-quality code to modern standards.
Senior PHP Developer at Gosea / Work Rest
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2022
Build out an intuitive user interface to present data in Vue and flag secure, efficient endpoints on a Laravel 8 backend, in a razor-sharp startup environment.
Senior PHP Developer at Patch Works
June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022
Responsible for integration into and extension of a vast ecommerce platform; spearheaded a user-empowering project converting from labour-intensive manual input to client self-service.
DevOps Engineer / Full Stack Developer at Hidden Ltd
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Development of an entirely bespoke Unity build server to facilitate developers. Implementation of a multi-user Unity server on a Lambda server, reducing overheads and enabling scalable dev pipelines.
Senior PHP Developer at Eido Health Care
July 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024
Successful resurrection of a mothballed legacy Craft CMS project; planning and provisioning AWS infrastructure to support the software base on Docker images.
Full Stack Developer at Polygon
November 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024
Maintained and upgraded a legacy native PHP 5.6 API; implemented new functionality and optimized endpoints for near real-time data processing in a startup environment.
Full Stack Developer at Commercial
August 1, 2025 - August 1, 2025
Development of high-precision bespoke analytics and diagnostic modules on a Laravel base to surface opportunities and weaknesses in extremely high-volume Fintech data and fine-tune performance for emerging markets.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at University of Wales, Bangor
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2006

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Retail, Telecommunications, Travel & Hospitality, Government, Consumer Goods