Chris Kankiewicz

Phoenix, Arizona • 623-252-6855

Chris@Kankiewicz.com www.ChrisKankiewicz.com

Summary

Passionate and productive PHP developer with over 15 years of experience and a constant desire to produce top quality work while learning new things. Personal strengths include advanced troubleshooting and problem solving skills in real-world situations, the capacity to acquire and apply new knowledge quickly and the ability to work efficiently in a team centric environment. Avid Linux user and open source enthusiast. Dedicated husband and proud father of two.

Skills

PHP 8 (and 7, 5)
HTML
CSS / SASS / Tailwind
JavaScript / Vue.js
MySQL / Postgres
Laravel frameworks
Slim PHP framework
Composer dependency manager
Git version control
Linux operating systems
Docker / Kubernetes
Nginx / Apache
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
Continuous Integration

Experience

Lead Software Engineer @ BackgroundChecks.com (formerly ClearChecks)

August 2021 - Present Remote

Actively led engineering team through feature planning and scoping, code reviews and regular pair programming.
Implemented development workflows and procedures and wrote accompanying documentation.
Instituted continuous integration testing workflows including a full test suite and static analysis checks.
Continually planned and developed features for BackgroundChecks.com SaaS application.
Ongoing application maintenance and dependency updates to support current versions of PHP and Laravel.

Freelance Software Developer @ Roave

September 2019 - August 2021 Remote

Provided feature development, testing, maintenance and consulting for PHP software applications.

Senior / Lead Software Engineer @ Freedom Financial Network

July 2017 - September 2019 Tempe, Arizona

Designed and implemented PHP restful API built on the Laravel framework.
Implemented continuous deployment pipelines on Google Cloud Platform.
Planned and performed application migration from Google App Engine Flex to Google Kubernetes Engine.

Senior PHP Developer @ KAR Auction Services

April 2017 - July 2017 Mesa, Arizona

Maintained and developed legacy PHP applications.
Planned and implemented future thinking improvements and refactoring.

Software Development Engineer @ IO Data Center

August 2015 - April 2017 Scottsdale, Arizona

Planned, designed and developed second iteration of the PHP based customer authentication and management portal built on the (Laravel) Lumen MVC framework.
Consumed Okta REST API to implement authentication and authorization and identity management within a custom-built customer web portal.
Advocated for, published and maintained an open source Okta PHP SDK.

Cloud Engineer @ IO Data Center

June 2014 - August 2014 Scottsdale, Arizona

Automated the continuous deployment of Linux-backed, OpenStack instances via SaltStack.
Built Arch Linux images with Packer for PXE booting cloud servers and infrastructure.
Deployed Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana monitoring platform in a Docker-backed, containerized environment.
Deployed Consul scripts written in Python for monitoring service usage and alerting on service warnings/failure.
Locally built and tested cloud instances in Vagrant test environments.

Web Application Developer @ Arizona State University

April 2011 - June 2014 Tempe, Arizona

Designed and developed a new iteration of the PHP based learning management system built on the CakePHP MVC framework.
Re-architected a normalized MySQL database from existing fragmented database structure.
Designed a detailed site frontend written in HTML, CSS and jQuery/JavaScript.

Web Developer / Designer @ Southwest Medical & Rehab

March 2009 - April 2011 Phoenix, Arizona

Conceptualized, designed, and deployed a custom PHP based e-commerce platform built on Zend Framework.
Designed and implemented multiple detailed site layouts written in HTML, CSS and jQuery/JavaScript.
Built out a highly available infrastructure for hosting the e-commerce platform.
Increased traffic to all sites via email campaigns and search engine optimizations.