Alan K
CTO at Brainsights
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlan K is a pragmatic CTO with 11 years of professional experience leading engineering teams and building product-grade platforms from his base in Old Toronto. Since 2014 he has steered Brainsights’ technical vision, drawing on earlier hands-on roles at Mozilla, Blue Coat, BlackBerry, and Maplesoft that span platform engineering, software development, verification, and release automation. He combines deep systems and build/release expertise with a formal Computer Science background (Waterloo, Combinatorics & Optimization), enabling him to translate complex technical tradeoffs into reliable, shipped solutions. Colleagues describe him as both intensely technical and refreshingly human—“very 🖥️” and “very 🌈”—which signals a leadership style that values engineering rigor alongside inclusive culture. His career shows a pattern of moving from quality and build roles into platform and executive leadership, suggesting a strength in operationalizing developer productivity and robust delivery pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computer Science - Combinatorics and Optimization Minor, Bachelor of Mathematics Honours Computer Science - Combinatorics and Optimization Minor at University of Waterloo
English, German, French, Japanese
Github Skills (123)
postgresql10
windows10
indexeddb10
extensible10
migrate10
plpgsql10
pgsql10
javascript10
client-library10
linux10
browser10
api10
sql10
js10
database-migration10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
js-platform/libwebrtc
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 comments in 1 year 9 months
modeswitch/nodejs-compute
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Node.js client for Google Compute Engine: Scalable, High-Performance Virtual Machines
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
compute-enginegoogle-compute-enginejs-clientscalablemachines
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