Alan Garfield
Principal Engineer at Learnosity
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAlan Garfield is a Principal Engineer based in New South Wales with 13 years of experience designing and operating resilient cloud infrastructure for high‑scale SaaS. He has driven Learnosity’s global platform evolution—leading region expansions, autoscaling and self‑healing systems, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives that support nearly 50 developers daily. Previously he co‑founded and built a million‑dollar e-commerce platform end-to-end, owning software, co‑lo operations and 24x7 production support. Alan combines low‑level hardware and assembly knowledge with modern cloud architecture, enabling pragmatic migrations and zero‑downtime schema changes at scale. Known as a pragmatic problem solver and “cloud surfer,” he favors best‑fit technologies and practical automation over one-size-fits-all solutions. His background in live A/V and touring production gives him a rare operational discipline and attention to reliability under pressure.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (68)
verilog10
python10
jumpstart10
automation10
infrastructure10
remote-execution10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
fpga10
event-stream10
vagrant10
configuration-management10
iot10
aws-cloudformation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Learnosity/vagrant-sparseimage
Feb 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
vagrantmountosxsharingguests
alangarf/apple-one
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
An attempt at a small Verilog implementation of the original Apple 1 on an FPGA
Contributions:1 review, 116 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 7 months
apple1fpgaverilogappleretrocomputing
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