Neil Aldred
Greater Preston Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Aldred is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust, scalable web applications and leading engineering teams across agencies and product businesses in the UK. He combines deep PHP/MySQL expertise and MVC frameworks with modern front-end and cloud practices—having delivered identity governance platforms, e-commerce inventory systems, and search-driven products using ElasticSearch, AWS, Docker, and Vue/React. As Technical Lead at Cyber-Duck and in senior roles at Fanwave and PrettyLittleThing, he’s driven complex integrations, migrations, performance and accessibility improvements while mentoring developers and enforcing engineering standards. Notably, he bridges operations and development, automating deployments and creating Docker-based developer environments that cut onboarding friction. Based in Greater Preston, he excels at turning messy legacy codebases into maintainable, secure platforms that meet both user and stakeholder needs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Polymaths certificate (Equivalent to 3 A Levels) Mathematics, Polymaths certificate (Equivalent to 3 A Levels) Mathematics at The University of BoltonBTEC National Diploma ICT Practitioner, BTEC National Diploma ICT Practitioner at Runshaw College
English
Stackoverflow
107reputation
20kreached
2answers
9questions
Github Skills (40)
fpm10
docker-image9
php-fpm9
spout9
php8
optimus8
exporter8
laravel8
docker7
e-mail6
html6
jcrop6
iphone6
css6
accordion6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nadge/laravel-aws-worker
Mar 2018 - Mar 2023
Run Laravel (or Lumen) tasks and queue listeners inside of AWS Elastic Beanstalk workers
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
aws-elastic-beanstalkelastic-beanstalkelasticphpbeanstalk
Cyber-Duck/laravel-address-finder
Aug 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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