Alan
Jeeves.

Alan Jeeves portrait
Senior PHP Backend Engineer
PHP · Symfony · AWS · Distributed Systems
South Coast, England

20+ years of shipping production code. I build the quiet, reliable systems that power marketplaces, APIs, back offices, and more.

About Me

A pragmatic backend engineer who has lived through every kind of product team.

Senior backend engineer who's spent two decades turning "can we build this?" into "yes, here it is, and it's already in production."

Talented and skilled developer, with over 20 years experience working in fast-paced product teams.

A strong conceptualiser, analyst, and problem solver, who is hardworking, dedicated, self-motivated, logical, and quick to learn new things.

I'm pragmatic, ownership-driven, and unusually fast without being sloppy. I take features from "rough idea in a meeting" to "live, tested, monitored, and not waking anyone up at 3am."

Tech stack.

Work experience.

2022
— present

Lead Backend Developer Electric Miles · London / Remote

Lead backend on a smart EV charging platform — design and maintain the Symfony system powering mobile and web apps. Manage distributed services across Redis, PostgreSQL, and Java WebSockets. Integrate Stripe and operate everything in AWS.
SymfonyPostgreSQLRedisAWSStripe
Electric Miles platform
Electric Miles platform
Electric Miles platform
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2017
— 2022

Senior PHP Developer Stashbee · London

Built the core marketplace from zero — a product that processed over £5M in transactions. Designed REST APIs for the React frontend, integrated Stripe, Twilio, Onfido, DVLA, and built a complete back-office CRM (operations, reporting, finance, user management).
SymfonyReactREST APIsMarketplace
Stashbee CRM
Stashbee marketplace
Stashbee analytics
→
2016
— 2017

Senior Gaming Automation Developer Playtech · London

Enhanced internal gaming frameworks built with Java and GWT. Developed tools for game configuration and maths modelling. Worked across Spring Boot, Angular and jQuery. Acted as Scrum Master, driving agile process and team efficiency.
JavaSpringAngularScrum
Playtech game
Playtech game
Playtech game
→
2005
— 2015

Technical Lead Ash Gaming · London

Led development team delivering gaming and internal tooling. Built PHP web apps for QA and deployment, developed game lobbies, designed build & versioning systems, managed IT infrastructure, recruited and mentored support staff.
PHPJavaScriptTech LeadMentoring
Ash Gaming title
Ash Gaming title
Ash Gaming title
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2002
— 2005

Junior Programmer Ash Luecker · London

Started during my degree — Flash applications and games for gaming and education. The placement that turned into a career.
FlashPlacement
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Praise

"Alan is not just an exceptional and experienced developer. He brings a sharp business brain to work every day and has a deep passion for the end customers' experience. He's also an authentic, genuine man who his colleagues value having in their team immensely."

Anthony Paine CEO & Co-Founder · Stashbee

"I had the privilege of working under Alan as part of the engineering team. He is an amazing, dependable problem-solver capable of providing pragmatic solutions for the company."

Daniel Barredo · Electric Miles

"I've had the pleasure of working cross functionally with Alan for over three years at Electric Miles, and his technical depth consistently stands out."

Hamza Faraz · Electric Miles

"I had the privilege of working closely with Alan Jeeves, our Lead Backend Engineer at Electric Miles, on delivering robust Charger management solution for EV smart charging. With years of hands-on experience, Alan leads a talented team in architecting high-performance systems. His technical depth shines in complex implementations like CPO commercial flows and Stripe integrations, where he not only demoed flawless execution but also drove stability and scalability under tight deadlines. Alan's ability to liaise across product, testing, and business teams makes him invaluable for enterprise SaaS in the energy & EV sector"

Shiv Kumar Yadav · Electric Miles

"His technical skill borders on genius and I have often been blown away by his developments and creative solutions."

Jacqui Nolan-Neylan · Ops Manager, Ash Gaming

"It's not unusual to hear someone say 'wait, Alan did that already!?' He takes great care with the details — countless deployments to live with no issues."

Anthony Paine · CEO, Stashbee

"Extremely adaptable. Always willing to take on projects that may challenge him. A strong character, confident in his own abilities."

Alison McEvoy · Dev Manager, Playtech

"Alan is able to meticulously think through a logical problem and come up with a realistic, workable solution."

Geoff Scaplehorn · Game Producer, Playtech

Side projects.

Personal applications built with PHP to stay current with latest framework features

RC Budget app

RC Timetable

RC Budget app

Timetable application for showing the student today's class schedue

PHP · Laravel · SQLite

RC Budget app

RC Todo

RC Budget app

Simple todo actions manager

PHP · Symfony · MySQL

RC Budget app

RC Linked

RC Budget app

Multipage multicolumn bookmarks manager

PHP · Symfony · MySQL

RC Note It app

RC Note It

RC Budget app

Personal note taking manager

PHP · Symfony · CkEditor

RC Budget app

RC Budget

RC Budget app

Personal finance manager

PHP · Symfony · MySQL

RC Gallery app

RC Gallery

Family photos manager

PHP · Symfony · MySQL

RC Depit deployment tool

Depit

Deployer application for PHP projects to production on shared hosting

Plain PHP · Git · FTP

Quick Mail Android app

Quick Mail

Android app to quickly message yourself a note or link

Java · Android · GMail API

UK Food Hygiene Rating WP plugin

Food Hygiene

WordPress plugin · PHP

Coulsdon Local site

Coulsdon Local

WordPress · Community Website

Jeeves Creations site

Jeeves Creations

PHP · Symfony · Bootstrap

Lets build something
together.

If you need a senior engineer who's already done it — at startups, marketplaces, and platform teams — let's talk.

Linked In → /in/alanjeeves