Alan Clucas
Staff Software Engineer at Pipekit
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Clucas is a versatile software and DevOps engineer with nine years of recent experience and a longer track record of C/C++ and embedded systems work dating back to childhood and an Oxford engineering education. He has progressed from hands-on embedded and networking development to DevOps architecture and senior engineering roles, blending system design, Kubernetes/GitOps, Linux, and Go with practical knowledge of mechanics and electronics. At World Programming and Sendible he led cross-functional initiatives, translating technical roadmaps into production-ready systems and successful managed services. An active contributor to the Argo Workflows project, he has improved documentation and SDK behavior for a widely used Kubernetes workflow engine, reflecting his attention to both developer experience and correctness. Known for clear, non‑patronising communication, he excels at aligning technical and non‑technical stakeholders and motivating teams to deliver.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Engineering (Combined Electronic, Mechanical and Civil), Masters, Engineering (Combined Electronic, Mechanical and Civil) at University of OxfordA Levels, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, A Levels, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Borden Grammar SchoolAS Level, French, AS Level, French at Barton Peveril College, Eastleigh
English, French
Github Skills (9)
work-flow10
argo-workflows10
workflow-engine10
go10
workflow-automation10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
python8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-workflows
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Workflow Engine for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 747 reviews, 574 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the documentation of the Argo Workflows project, specifically detailing the various phase values for both node and workflow statuses. Their contributions included updating code within the Python SDK to reflect the documentation improvements. They also fixed inline templates in templates, removing a legacy recursion preventer from template resolution and added the `lastRetry.message` to the retry policy.
kubernetesworkflow-engineworkflowargodag
sendible-labs/openvpnas-exporter
Aug 2022 - May 2025
A Prometheus exporter for OpenVPN AS that uses the XML-RPC unix domain socket.
Contributions:2 reviews, 48 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 9 months
exporterrpcunixprometheus-exportersocket
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