Alan Kay
Senior Software Engineer at Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Kay is a Senior Software Engineer based in Des Moines with a decade of experience building and maintaining mission-critical systems at Principal Financial Group. He combines a business-focused Information Systems and Marketing background with a computer science minor to bridge technical execution and product outcomes, especially in C#-heavy back-end work and data-layer integration. Recent projects include developing a shared data layer for positions and trades and accelerating AWS adoption and modern engineering practices across teams. He mentors developers, fosters pairing/mobbing workflows, and administers CI/CD tooling like GitHub and Azure DevOps to improve developer experience and regulatory compliance. Comfortable across languages from Java and Python to VB.NET and Mule ESB, he pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking and process design. Outside day-to-day delivery he describes himself as a technology enthusiast and professional geek—bringing curiosity and practical problem-solving to organizational learning and developer enablement.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems, Marketing, Minor in Computer Science, 3.67 Cumulative GPA, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems, Marketing, Minor in Computer Science, 3.67 Cumulative GPA at Drake University
English
Github Skills (144)
command-line-tool10
runner10
github-actions-runner10
golang10
cli10
staging10
build-time10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
yelp10
development-kit10
openwrt10
aws10
react10
aws-security9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AjkayAlan/docker-linux-dev-box
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Creates a linux development environment with docker that has most nice things installed
Contributions:58 commits, 11 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 2 months
dockerfilelinux-developmentdocker-imagelinuxdocker
AjkayAlan/rpi-nginx-rp
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
nginxraspberry-pidocker-imagenginx-reverse-proxyproxy
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