I am Brenton Alker, hailing from Brisbane, Australia.

As a software developer and chronic lurker, I can often be seen hanging around the fringes of various communities.

I am currently enamoured with the Functional Programming community where I am attracted to their ideal of “doing software right” by producing small units of simple functionality that are “obviously correct”, then composing into larger systems. While I don’t believe this methodology is specific to functional style programming, the community is (in my experience) more focused on this quality.

Contacts

If you want to get in touch, I shouldn’t be too hard to find.

• Twitter: (@tekerson)
• Email: brenton@tekerson.com
• IRC: brenton on Freenode

Technologies and Skills

Software Development

• PHP – Silex, Zend Framework, Symfony2 Components
• .NET – C#, VB, .NET MVC, WebForms
• JavaScript – AngularJS, CoffeeScript, TypeScript
• HTML5
• CSS – Sass, Less
• Java – Android
• Objective C – iOS

Software Architecture

• Object-Oriented Programming
• Functional Programming
• Service-Oriented Architecture, Micro-Services
• API Design

Software Engineering

• Requirements Elicitation and Specification
• Agile Development
  • SCRUM style
  • Test Driven Design
• Information Systems
  • Database Design
  • Query Optimisation
• API Integration
  • RSS, Atom
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • etc.
• Automated Testing
  • Unit – PHPUnit, NUnit, Karma
  • Integration/Behaviour – WatiN, Selenium
• Automation
  • Bash
  • Puppet
  • Grunt
  • Phing

Server Administration

• Linux – Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Docker
• Web – Apache, Nginx
• Database – MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres
• Mail – Postfix
• Proxy – Varnish
• Version Control
  • Git
  • Subversion (SVN)