Alison Dowdney
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlison Dowdney is a London-based software engineer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, developer tools and front-end experiences. Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Bain after a year as a Senior Associate Analytics App Engineer, she blends production engineering with a strong developer-relations background from roles at Weaveworks and Kasten. An active open-source contributor, Alison improved the Flux CD website and documentation UX (navigation, blog layout and Docsy theme tweaks), demonstrating attention to developer onboarding and UI polish. Pragmatic about tooling—she once implemented Bazel only to remove it when Go modules arrived—she pairs deep Kubernetes and CI experience with clear communication. Equally comfortable explaining helm charts from a projector as she is shipping services, she brings technical depth, curiosity, and a community-first mindset to teams.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Information Technology, Level 5, Diploma, Information Technology, Level 5 at Waikato Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at University of Waikato
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Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
websitedesign10
websitedevelopment10
documentations10
documentation10
javascript9
javascripts9
markdown-it8
markdown8
kubernetes3
cd3
kubernetes-pod3
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fluxcd/website
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
The Flux website and user documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 51 commits, 33 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alison primarily contributed to the website's front-end, as evidenced by changes to the navigation bar, blog layout, and documentation portal. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface, improving the display of blog content with cards, and implementing a more user-friendly documentation navigation system. These changes involved modifications to HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript, specifically to the Docsy theme used.
user-documentationkubernetesfluxfluxcdcd
alisondy/community
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
Kubernetes community content
Contributions:32 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 7 months
k3dkuberneteskubernetes-community
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