Alan Hicks
Founder & CTO at Persistent Objects Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlan Hicks is a founder and CTO with 13 years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable web applications and lifting brand value for blue-chip clients and SMEs from London. He blends project management and full‑stack engineering expertise, specializing in Django, DRF, Python automation, SaltStack orchestration, PostgreSQL tuning and FreeBSD deployments. Known for pragmatic architecture and solid database foundations, he delivers easy-to-use, high-impact sites that scale reliably in production. As the driving force behind Persistent Objects Ltd since 1998, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with day-to-day engineering, often taking on both strategy and implementation.
12 years of coding experience
English, French
Github Skills (63)
sqlite10
postgresql10
python10
sendmail10
imap10
mysql10
django-framework10
django10
smtp10
email-validation10
pop3-server10
jmap10
sender10
php10
persistent10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dbmail/dbmail
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
DBMail: fast and scalable email services
Contributions:6 releases, 14 reviews, 80 commits in 1 year 9 months
pop3senderdkimpersistentmailbox
alan-hicks/mldemo
Jul 2014 - Apr 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes in 7 years 9 months
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