Alex Bilbie
Chief Technology Officer at Various Startups
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Bilbie is a founder and senior engineer with 16 years of experience designing cloud-native, cost-efficient systems and building startups end-to-end. He’s currently building TeamLeap to help line managers follow through on development conversations, having previously scaled engineering teams and rewired monolithic PHP stacks into Go-based microservices at fast-growth companies like Muzz and Popsa. Equally comfortable in leadership and hands-on roles, he led real-time analytics pipelines processing 150M+ events/day and introduced modern observability and on-call practices that materially cut costs. A prolific open-source contributor, Alex has improved widely used PHP libraries (including oauth2-client and CodeIgniter drivers) and strengthened tooling around image, database and graph integrations. Based in the UK, he combines product-focused engineering with angel investing and a knack for translating operational pain points into practical tooling.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Spalding Grammar SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Lincoln
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
authorizations10
middleware10
apidoc10
databases10
user-authentication10
authentication10
neo4j10
php-framework10
php10
api10
exception-handling10
sql10
image-manipulation10
authorization10
rest-api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thephpleague/oauth2-client
Feb 2013 - Aug 2014
Easy integration with OAuth 2.0 service providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `oauth2-client` library by adding, modifying and correcting Identity Provider classes. Their work included implementing new providers like UniLincoln and updating existing ones like Facebook and Google. They also addressed issues related to namespaces, function names and class implementations, refining the structure and functionality of the OAuth2 client library. The user added unit tests for the provider to aid the ongoing development.
oauthphpoauth2authorizationsso
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Mar 2011 - Nov 2012
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:85 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the CodeIgniter framework by adding support for the SQL Server database (sqlsrv). Their contributions include creating an sqlsrv driver, implementing database connection and query execution, and modifying the result class for improved functionality. The user also addressed various aspects of the SQL Server integration, such as transaction handling and data retrieval, while refactoring existing database driver classes. Furthermore, the user updated the email library to clear the parameters after sending email messages.
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