Hi, I’m Andy Venus 🪐
A software developer based in the UK.

I build clean, reliable software across the full stack, tinker with side projects, and care a lot about how things work under the hood. Powered by specialty coffee and overcast British skies.

// Tech I Use

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Vue
  • Swift
  • AWS

// Experience

📍 East Sussex, United Kingdom

  • Lead Developer

    Jun 2015 – Present

    The Foundation Stage Forum & Tapestry · Full-time

    Helped rebuild the core product, Tapestry, from the ground up using a modern technology stack. Lead the ongoing development and maintenance of Tapestry across the whole stack, both via the introduction of new features and via managing the AWS infrastructure that the application runs upon.

  • Freelance Web Developer

    Oct 2006 – Feb 2021

    AV Scripts · Self-employed

    Created, marketed & sold bespoke Content Management Systems designed to allow customers to deploy their own Flash and HTML5 gaming websites alongside other niche CMSs. Improved (and rewrote) the CMS over the years, bringing it up to modern standards using a customised version of the Symfony PHP framework.