Leonard has designed, developed and trained around web technologies for over a decade. He co-founded Welford Media Ltd in 2004, a digital agency based in the UK with clients such as British Red Cross, PayPal, Amazon and eBay. In 2012 he successfully exited Welford Media to pursue new opportunities in London. He has commercial experience with: - multiple languages (PHP, Python, Go (Golang), JavaScript, HTML5) - frameworks (Django, Zend, Symfony, Node.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular.js) - relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra) - message queues (RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd, NSQ) - configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, cloudformation) - source control (Git, SVN) - cloud infrastructures (AWS, Rackspace). - Service Oriented Architectures - distributed systems - design patterns (e.g. MVC) Preference for agile teams, iterative development, continuous integration, customer collaboration, automated testing and passionate, empowered staff. Leonard received a 1st class honours degree in Physics with Space Science and Technology and was presented the Highest Achieving Student Award, is Prince2 Practitioner Qualified and Zend PHP 5.3 Certified. He is an experienced technical team lead, project manager and software engineer with extensive knowledge of front-end and back-end technologies.

Technical Lead @ From August 2012 to January 2015 (2 years 6 months) London, United KingdomFounder @ From March 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 4 months) Trainer @ From January 2007 to March 2012 (5 years 3 months) Leeds, United KingdomFounder / CTO @ From November 2004 to March 2012 (7 years 5 months) Leeds, United Kingdom

Leonard Austin is skilled in: E-commerce, Web Applications, jQuery, CSS, PHP, Git, HTML, SEO, Web Development, HTML 5, Agile Methodologies, Start-ups, MySQL, XHTML, Website Development