Alister Bulman
Software Engineer at WI-Q LIMITED
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlister Bulman is a seasoned Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience building and rescuing high-traffic PHP/Symfony applications and LAMP architectures, with a strong focus on scalability, ops and code quality. He’s led backend API and event-driven systems across Symfony v3.4–6.2 and PHP 7.2–8.2, and has hands-on experience moving teams from dedicated hosting to automated Ansible deployments and modern Symfony configs. Comfortable as a troubleshooter or technical architect, he’s repeatedly scaled systems to handle millions of daily hits and thousands of concurrent users while improving maintainability and testing practices. Based in London, he maintains a public technical presence via PHPScaling.com and GitHub, and enjoys deep-diving into unfamiliar technologies—so when he says he’s curious, he usually has already collected a useful pile of research and tooling.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
HNC, Computer Studies, HNC, Computer Studies at Bournemouth University
Stackoverflow
34,794reputation
4.4mreached
816answers
16questions
mysql
top-5%
queue
top-5%
zend-framework
top-5%
caching
top-5%
ubuntu
top-5%
command-line
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
api10
htmlpurifier10
filter10
symfony10
sublime10
php10
oauth10
phpunit10
spider10
oauth-client10
monolog10
symfony-bundle10
reserved10
internet-explorer10
phpstorm10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alister/ReservedNamesBundle
Jul 2014 - Nov 2020
A bundle to clean, and check, a given username against an (extensible) list of reserved words/usernames
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 4 months
bundlephpsymfony-bundlecleanwords
alister/station-initials_v2
Feb 2020 - Aug 2024
Initials to 3-letter code stations lookup
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
letterjavascriptstationsinitialswebpack
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.