Alan Farquharson
VP Of Site Reliability at Purple
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Farquharson is a seasoned site reliability and DevOps leader with 14 years of experience building and operating high-traffic web platforms, currently serving as VP of Site Reliability at Purple. He progressed from senior PHP developer to SRE leadership within the same company, blending deep PHP/MySQL expertise and Linux systems administration with strategic ownership of reliability for a SaaS platform used across 50,000 venues. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and people leadership, he has a track record of scaling infrastructure for analytics and location-based services serving household brands. A Manchester Metropolitan University computing graduate, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, automation and predictable operations—often translating legacy PHP stacks into resilient, cloud-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, ICT Practitioners, BTEC, ICT Practitioners at Ashton Sixth FormWest HillBSc, Computing, BSc, Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (93)
testing10
acceptance-testing10
phpunit10
integration-testing10
bdd10
unit-testing10
codeception10
minecraft9
php-api9
php9
full-stack9
artifacts8
command-line-tool8
php-library8
mysql-workbench8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Farkie/McMyAdmin-PHP-Api
Apr 2012 - Jul 2019
McMyAdmin PHP Api
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 7 years 4 months
php-api
Farkie/ddev-redis-insight
May 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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