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      <h1>Alan Pearce</h1>
      <h2>Backend & Infrastructure Developer</h2>
      <h3>Berlin, Germany</h3>
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          <li>
            Email: <a href="mailto:alan@alanpearce.eu">alan@alanpearce.eu</a>
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          <li>Website: <a href="https://alanpearce.eu">alanpearce.eu</a></li>
          <li>
            GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/alanpearce">@alanpearce</a>
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          <li>
            Personal Projects:
            <a href="https://git.alanpearce.eu">git.alanpearce.eu</a>
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        <h4>Summary</h4>
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          I care about keeping code and UIs consistent and simple. I also have a
          strong drive to learn and really enjoy being able to explore new
          methodologies and languages.
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        <h4>Experience</h4>
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          <h5>Senior Fullstack Developer at SatoshiPay</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2017—2023</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>Helm</li>
          <li>Kubernetes</li>
          <li>GitLab</li>
          <li>TypeScript</li>
          <li>PostgreSQL</li>
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        <p>
          Principal worker for migration from Docker Cloud to Kubernetes,
          alongside work on microservices interfacing with distributed ledger
          APIs. Implemented and maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines including
          merge request previews and end-to-end testing. Migrated projects to
          product-based monorepos.
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          <h5>Senior Fullstack Developer at SpotCap</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2015–2017</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>NodeJS</li>
          <li>MySQL</li>
          <li>Webpack</li>
          <li>Sails.js</li>
          <li>Mithril.js</li>
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        <p>
          Responsible for banking integration service, implemented parsers and
          generators for custom text formats (MT940, MT942) using unit tests to
          verify.
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          Worked on backend credit scoring admin panel, began migration from
          Sails to SPA using Mithril
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          <h5>Senior Web Developer at StudentCrowd (Studio-40 spin-off)</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2014–2015</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>MySQL</li>
          <li>ElasticSearch</li>
          <li>Vagrant</li>
          <li>Saltstack</li>
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        <p>
          Optimised database access and ORM usage. Simplified dev environment
          setup using Vagrant and Salt. Attended ElasticSearch, LogStash &
          Kibana training. Worked remotely (60% -> 100%)
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          <h5>Senior Developer at Studio-40</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2014</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>Symfony</li>
          <li>Sylius</li>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>MySQL</li>
          <li>Capistrano</li>
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          Wrote product CSV importer for Sylius with streaming preview diff
          feature. Fixed issues with integration of payment provider API
          including false payment failures. Assisted front-end developers with
          JavaScript.
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          <h5>Backend Web Developer at Bulb Studios</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2013–2014</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>Laravel</li>
          <li>ExpressionEngine</li>
          <li>Ansible</li>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>Capistrano</li>
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        <p>
          Suggested and implemented switch from Apache to Nginx, enabling a
          1000x speedup in page loads. Suggested and implemented use of
          configuration management for server provisioning. Introduced Vagrant
          to reduce development environment variance and Capistrano for
          deployment. Created time-basic competition entry API designed for 50k
          RPM.
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          <h5>PHP Web Developer at Supplyant</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2012-2013</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>MySQL</li>
          <li>Subversion</li>
          <li>jQuery</li>
          <li>HTML</li>
          <li>CSS</li>
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          Maintained e-commerce platform and worked on new product management
          system. Made Entity-Attribute-Value system usable for other database
          consumers using an SQL view. Recommended use of Mustache templates,
          which the design team loved
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          <h5>Web Applications Programmer at ASL Holdings</h5>
          <span class="timeperiod">2010-2011</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>MySQL</li>
          <p>Continued rewrite of SIM management web application</p>
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        <h4>Relevant Education</h4>
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            <h5>CodeSchool</h5>
            <span class="timeperiod">2014</span>
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            <li>Ruby</li>
            <li>JavaScript</li>
            <li>CoffeeScript</li>
            <li>EmberJS</li>
            <li>BackboneJS</li>
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            <h5>Computing A Level at Northampton College</h5>
            <span class="timeperiod">2008-2010</span>
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        <ul>
          <li>Pascal</li>
          <li>PHP</li>
          <li>SQL</li>
          <li>HTML</li>
          <li>CSS</li>
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