Ed Forrest

Building Hello👋 Local Shop - helping local independent shops reach customers who want to buy online and value the local connection. Other projects include building bespoke web-apps and optimising databases and organisational systems to help companies and charities operate more effectively, as well as optimising existing Excel and Google Sheets workflows to help teams get the maximum utility out of their functions. Saving companies and charities months of person-hours on admin every year, so their teams are free to implement more of their specialist knowledge and skills. Skills and tools used include PHP, MySQL, Laravel, Tailwind, Object-Orientated Programming, Livewire, Alpine.js, Javascript, Digital Ocean, CloudFlare, Forge, AWS, Mapbox, Stripe.