Dublin, Ireland — open to new roles

Sonel Ali

Digital Platform Developer / Web Applications & Systems Integration

I build resilient platforms.

Five years of design and development experience — the last three spent owning full-lifecycle platform delivery, third-party integrations, and independent security incident response. I sit in the rare overlap of hands-on platform engineering and a genuine visual / UX design background.

Platform Integration

WordPress / ACF · CRM (Dynamics / SOAP) · Payments · LMS

Security & Compliance

Incident response · Access-control architecture · GDPR

Infrastructure

Docker · Railway · Migrations · Hosting management

Languages

PHP · JavaScript / TypeScript · React.js · SQL · Python

Design & UX

Figma · Adobe Suite · Wireframing · Brand systems

  • Own full-lifecycle delivery across client platforms — discovery, UX, architecture, build, maintenance
  • Built the LSAD Graduates platform (Lovie Award winner) and the “Housing Unlocked” campaign site (~25,000 visits)
  • Rebuilt a national platform integrating WordPress, a Dynamics CRM, payments, and an LMS — worked directly with the CRM vendor’s engineers
  • Independently detected and remediated two live malware incidents, with no in-house security team
INCIDENT REPORT RESOLVED

GDPR-relevant vulnerability — found & permanently fixed

Identified a live, GDPR-relevant vulnerability — a recurrence of an issue previously reported by the Data Protection Commission. Root-caused and permanently patched it, then proactively audited a second platform and pre-emptively fixed the same flaw before it could be exploited there.

INCIDENT REPORT RESOLVED

Live malware compromise — detected & fully remediated

Identified a live compromise on a client site — disguised backdoor files and a rogue admin-account creation exploit. Traced the entry point, removed the malicious code, and implemented preventative hardening (including bot protection on public forms), with no in-house security team to lean on.

INCIDENT REPORT RESOLVED

Malicious script injection — traced & closed

Diagnosed a hidden script injection buried in a site’s navigation markup — the kind of attack vector most routine audits miss entirely. Traced the injection point and confirmed full removal through hosting-level forensics.

RECOGNITION

Lovie Award — LSAD Graduates platform

Built and shipped the platform that won this award, alongside a national campaign site (“Housing Unlocked,” built with the Irish Architecture Foundation and The Housing Agency) that drew close to 25,000 visits.

ECI Platform Rebuild

BUILD LOG SHIPPED

CRM integration with zero reference implementation

Built a working API client against a vendor’s system from spec alone, with no working example to build from. Got two of the vendor’s own server-side bugs fixed by working directly with their engineering team, and corrected a live data field-mapping issue on the way.

MIGRATION COMPLETE

~5,000 groups, ~5,800 accounts migrated — zero data collisions

Migrated a live dataset between two independently-built platforms, matching records on real-world business identifiers to eliminate ID-collision risk between two source databases that had never been designed to talk to each other.

ARCHITECTURE BY DESIGN

Cross-account data leakage — made impossible, not just tested for

Designed the access-control model for a compliance training platform so that one member account structurally cannot reach another’s data — a property of the architecture itself, not a rule enforced after the fact by testing.

  • Built and maintained Shopify / WordPress client sites
  • Produced artwork and packaging for commercial music releases
  • Mentored junior designers
  • Branding and print production for Ketel One Vodka, Roe & Co Distillery, and Hang Dai

HND Applied Software Development — CCT College Dublin 2022–2023

Oracle Java SE 8

Java Object-Oriented Programming Core APIs

Microsoft Software Dev & HTML5 Fundamentals

Programming Fundamentals HTML5 & CSS3 JavaScript

Adobe Illustrator

Vector Illustration Branding Print Design

Adobe Photoshop

Image Editing Compositing Digital Retouching

Adobe InDesign

Layout Design Publication Design Typesetting