Alan Christie
Solution Architect at INFORMATICS MATTERS LIMITED
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Christie is an award-winning Solution Architect and software engineer with a hardware background and over 35 years of experience delivering resilient, high-performance systems across broadcast, commercial, research and military domains. He blends low-level, bare-metal expertise in DSP, embedded systems and assembler with modern cloud-native practices—CI/CD, containerisation, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code—bringing rare full-stack depth from silicon to SaaS. Known for architecting real-time, big-data correlation engines and automation frameworks that saved customers millions, he champions pragmatic, test-driven development and “beautiful code” backed by rigorous profiling, coverage and orchestration. Comfortable leading teams, coaching engineers and liaising with clients, he repeatedly turns complex algorithmic ideas into robust production products. A tinkerer at heart, he has a long history of inventing optimised signal-processing implementations and automated test tools alongside delivering enterprise-grade deployments.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nottingham Trent University
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Github Skills (200)
container-management10
slurm10
dataflow10
crawler10
k8s10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
api10
groovy10
cattle10
endpoint10
container-image10
python10
react-redux10
rancher10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
InformaticsMatters/fragalysis-backend
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Django backend loader and Restful API for fragalysis server
Contributions:11 releases, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 9 months
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorestful
InformaticsMatters/squonk2-data-manager-jupyter-operator
May 2021 - Apr 2025
A Kubernetes operator for Jupyer
Contributions:26 releases, 8 PRs, 128 pushes in 3 years 11 months
squonk2k8s-operatoroperatorkuberneteskubernetes-operator
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