About Me
Hi there, I’m Abdi Gulaid and thanks for visiting. I’m a freelance web developer, geek, and an all-round friendly guy with a passion for web development. I have over 5 years of commercial web development experience and offer high quality hand coded greatness that conforms to the strictest web standards.
I specialise in creating functional websites which encompass secure, scalable, object-oriented programming. As a strong advocate of web standards all of my work is developed with conformity and accessibility in mind, this allows for your website to be accessed by as many people as possible including the disabled.
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Skills:
- Over 5 years of practical experience in developing web systems
- PHP
- ASP/.Net
- JSP
- Databases: MySQL, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Flash
- JavaScript
- AJAX
- HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML
- WordPress, Drupal, osCommerce, Magento customization/development
- 3rd-party API integration (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, PayPal, Facebook, Twitter etc.)
- Content management systems (CMS)
- Bespoke solution/application development
Qualifications:
Formally a student of web development and computer science at London’s City University, I also hold numerous industry qualifications from Microsoft, Cisco, ITIL, and CompTIA. I’m a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and can be found contributing to various charity/community web projects. I’m currently in the process of putting together a video series which teaches web programming concepts and fundamentals to new and experienced web developers.
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I’m privileged to be working in a field that I'm passionate about, computers and the web are my passion and each web development project I complete brings me a tremendous feeling of satisfaction. I enjoy the challenges that come with solving real world problems through technology and believe in good old ‘honest hard work’!
I’m highly motivated and have a strong awareness of both previous and future technological trends, my work exemplifies my passion for pushing the technological envelope and I always strive for perfection where possible. I place a lot of emphasis on accessibility, security, scalability, and compliance during the web development process and all of the work I produce has the hallmarks of this approach.
I'm down to earth, honest and reliable, and work for the betterment of the businesses I'm privileged to have worked for and continue to work for. I believe most people are fundamentally good in nature and enjoy meeting individuals from all walks of life.
