Alan Harper
Chief Technology Officer at Dokio.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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SeniorAlan Harper is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Melbourne with 18 years building scalable web and fintech systems across startups and growth companies. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Go, React and cloud infrastructure—with product-minded architecture work that supported major pivots and B2B platform launches. As a long-time contributor to the rubyzip project he refactored core modules and modernized its test suite, signaling a pragmatic focus on maintainability and quality. His background includes leading engineering teams, designing infrastructure from hardware up, and shipping real-time and trading systems under operational constraints. Known for turning "tea into systems," he excels at translating messy requirements into reliable, testable platforms while mentoring teams through scale.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (12)
rspec10
ruby10
manifest9
file-handling9
objective-c6
xcode6
rake6
ios6
coredata6
iphone6
rubygems6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rubyzip/rubyzip
Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
Official Rubyzip repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the `Zip` module, splitting it into separate files based on their classes. They also initiated the conversion of the project's test suite to RSpec, demonstrating an understanding of testing frameworks. Additionally, the user merged in updates from the master branch and removed support for loading ruby within the zip files.
encryptionrubyrubyzipzip-extraction
aussiegeek/rest-countries
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:87 PRs, 75 pushes, 78 branches in 9 months
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