Summary
Bernard Robbins is a seasoned Magento back-end specialist with 14 years of experience building and maintaining high-performance e-commerce platforms and custom PHP modules. He combines deep expertise in PHP, SQL, AWS, and performance tooling (Varnish, Nginx, PHP-FPM) with practical CI/CD and automation experience using Ansible, DeployHQ, and Python Lambdas. Bernard has led complex migrations and AWS re-hosting projects that improved scalability and reduced costs, and he’s comfortable across the full stack from server provisioning to API integrations. He values clean, reusable OOP code and design patterns, and routinely uses XDebug, PHPUnit and Lighthouse to ensure reliability and performance. Currently exploring Python, web scraping, and local LLM tooling, he’s transitioning side projects into broader cloud and ML experimentation. Based in Battle Creek, MI, he pairs self-driven continuous learning with a proven track record of supporting six-figure revenue sites single-handedly.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
General General Studies, General General Studies at Elkhart Central High