My name is David Coen and I’ve been a professional web developer since 2008. I’ve worked for a number of large companies in Ireland, all the way from junior developer to my most recent role as Engineering Manager. For web development, I mainly code in PHP on a LAMP stack, but am alsi interested in Javascript and the frontend side, although I’m not much of a designer!
I haven’t always worked on the web; I have previous experience for one of the largest banks in the world, working on their backend mainframe systems. I got into the web properly, i.e. beyond static HTML and basic JavaScript, for my final year project in university, where I developed an XML/XSLT based CMS, using PHP and MySQL. While working in the bank I built my first fully fledged web application, sportbo.com, a sports management platform, in PHP. This helped me get a job at Daft.ie (at the time, Ireland’s busiest website) but lately development on it has pretty much ceased as I look to learn new technologies and develop new applications. Similarly, I built and launched menucosm.com back in 2015 from scratch, as a showcase of my abilities.
I also like to travel and went on a solo round the world trip a few years ago. The picture on each pages header is (a blurred version) of me at the Perito Moreno glacier in Southern Argentina. I’m also a keen squash player, having begun at age 10 and am still playing regular league squash in Dublin.
N.B. All thoughts and views expressed here are totally my own and do not relfect those of my current or previous employers.
Oh, one last thing – just to clarify, ‘drcoen’ doesn’t mean Dr. Coen, ‘r’ is the first letter of my middle name! ‘dcoen’ was too short a username for a certain email provider and ‘davidcoen’ and other variations of it were already taken, hence I used the first initial of my middle name.