Alister Bulman

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Contact Me Link to heading

I can be contacted in a number of ways.

Preferred: – Email
https://hachyderm.io/@alister on Hachyderm
Stack Overflow

Or just Google me. One of the advantages of a distinctive name, I’m very, very searchable. In fact, Google can even correct misspellings. Do note however, there are people with similar – but not exact – names. Some of these people are not nice, and so it is very important to me that you spell ‘Alister’ correctly. If I mis-named you, that would be disrespectful and I would want to be correct, and respectful, I would just ask you to do the same for me.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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What websites have you been involved in? Link to heading

There has been a number over the years, but the three main ones that immediately spring to mind are:

binweevils.com (2010) Bin Weevils is a flash-based game/social-network/MMORPG for 7-13 year olds. I was brought in to take special responsibilities for scaling and optimisation. The initial intent was to scale up from an initial ~4000 concurrent players, and to survive being advertised on at TV. When I left, there were often 10,000+ concurrent users online, which was handled without issues by the systems I had put into place.My skills with Mysql and PHP scaling technologies achieved that through 2010 with improved Apache, Mysql and PHP layers of the stack and other improvements such as use of Memcached for both cache and transient storage.

From the servers that I controlled, there was in excess of 200 million hits per month (99.9% PHP, and peaking at over 20 Million hits/day), from a pair of PHP application servers and with 20+TB data delivered across the entire site per month, including fully dynamic PHP responses to Flash, CDN sourced flash/images & streaming video.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Luna Flags Link to heading

The colours or sizes may change, but the idea is simple - represent the new frontier, and the old home. Where we are now (the moon) is most important, but don’t forget where we were from.

Lets keep it simple Link to heading

I designed these flag options a long time ago, around the year 2001, following some discussion (and a competition) on the main moon society mailing list regarding a flag. Several were produced, but they were all very complicated.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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Last update: November 6th, 2026.

Hi, I’m Alister Bulman. I live in West London and I am not looking for my next role, When I do, it will be most ideally, fully-remote, developing Symfony v8+ and PHP v8.4+ based sites and tools. If you are looking for an Senior PHP developer - let me know.

I’m a (back-end oriented) developer, specialising in #PHP & #Symfony, and especially Code quality and System Optimisation - and looking for a Tech-Lead/Staff-Engineer or Senior Developer role. PHP Has been my language of choice since 1999, and Symfony since 2014. I love to keep up with technology and plan the systems & write code to help my sites handle potentially large scale and many users. Based in London, UK, but I’ve been working remotely for years.