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Alister on a Water taxi, Rotterdam, 2013
I’m on a boat. Rotterdam, 2013.

Hi, I’m Alister Bulman. I live in West London and I’m looking for my next role – most ideally, fully-remote, developing Symfony v7+ and PHP v8.2+ 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 for the last 10 years. 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.

Some of my previous jobs include Online games (with a peak of 10,000 concurrent players), dating websites (sending, and handling the incoming requests, from 250,000 emails/week to users), along with various SAAS and Government websites. Writing quality, well structured new code, improving what may be already there, and helping junior developers become great senior devs is what excites me the most.

You can find (and contact) me via my GitHub profile page – https://github.com/alister

I love to use my extensive knowledge of the tools and techniques to help lead the way of major technical architecture decisions and the development of interesting projects. Large-scale systems with millions of hits per day are a particular favourite, but I’m equally happy with smaller but equally powerful systems and applications that can make a difference.

In the meantime, I’m:

  • Writing tools to help people do things better and faster
  • Releasing & contributing to opensource code that helps produce some great results for others
  • Learning all the time – how to write better software, and to get it out where people can use it. For me, the saddest thing is code that isn’t being used to help people, and companies to achieve a positive end – for themselves, their companies, and enthusiastic customers who all gain from the results.

As my activities change, I’ll update this page. Last update was on December 6th, 2024.

CREDIT: I stole the idea for this page from Derek Sivers.
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