Alan Denniston
Principal System Engineer at Synacor
City of North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Denniston is a Principal System Engineer with 10+ years designing and operating large-scale Linux-based email systems that serve millions of users. At Synacor he leads DevOps-focused efforts—building zero-downtime migration paths, capacity planning across multi-datacenter and cloud environments, and automation tooling that improves operational efficiency and user experience. He combines hands-on sysadmin chops (99.9% uptime track record) with load-testing, monitoring and performance tuning to keep complex infrastructures resilient and scalable. Based in North Tonawanda, NY, Alan pairs a gamer-nerd curiosity with pragmatic engineering, mentoring teams and turning operational pain points into durable, automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Niagara Community CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Niagara County Community College
Github Skills (5)
slack-bot4
steam2
waydroid2
steamos2
android2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
busybox42/evilapi
Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:162 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
EvalAlan/PapaGreet
Dec 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:10 releases, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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