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I'm Vincent Bean.

A backend PHP developer building Laravel apps, integrations & infrastructure.

Backend engineer combining software development, infrastructure and operational reliability.

Vincent Bean

Most of my recent work has been at an e-commerce agency, building backend applications, integrations and infrastructure. From API-based Magento 2 integrations and async processing pipelines to internal tooling, automation and self-hosted infrastructure.

I prefer pragmatic engineering over unnecessary complexity, and I enjoy building systems that are reliable, maintainable and observable whether that's a Laravel application or the infrastructure underneath it. Outside of work I build projects that let me explore new technologies and open-source software.

10+ years in PHP & Laravel / Backend & infrastructure / Open-source contributor

Currently building

Vigilant

An open-source, self-hostable monitoring tool covering uptime, SSL, performance, health, flows and more in one place. Built with Laravel to replace a handful of separate services with a single app you control.

Laravel PHP Open source Self-hosted Docker

How I work

Pragmatic engineering over unnecessary complexity.

Backend engineering

APIs, queue workers and async pipelines that stay reliable under real-world load.

Laravel PHP Magento 2

Infrastructure & reliability

Self-hosted, observable systems, containers, CI/CD and the Linux underneath.

Docker Linux CI/CD

Integrations

Wiring commerce platforms to ERP, PIM and WMS systems over messy, real-world APIs.

REST APIs ERP / PIM MySQL / Redis

Open-source activity