Alan Mac Kenna
Senior Privacy Analyst at Okta
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Mac Kenna is a Senior Privacy Analyst with 11 years of experience embedding privacy by design across product, legal and security teams, currently at Okta after leading privacy compliance for MetLife EMEA. He has a strong technical background as a former software developer and co‑founder who built a React Native product and led engineering teams, which informs his practical approach to operationalising privacy in complex systems. Alan has designed privacy frameworks, led DPIAs and data incident response, and managed outsourced DPO services for healthcare clients and EU institutions. He curates the Privacy Transformation newsletter and brings a rare blend of hands‑on product experience, legal training and information security governance. Notably, his career spans both building consumer-facing software and advancing enterprise privacy programs, making him effective at translating regulatory requirements into developer-friendly controls.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate in Data Protection Data Protection, Professional Certificate in Data Protection Data Protection at IOBBachelor of Science Computing, Bachelor of Science Computing at Technological University DublinDiploma in Law Law, Diploma in Law Law at Law Society of IrelandHigh School, High School at De La Salle College ChurchtownHigher National Diploma Digital Information Management, Higher National Diploma Digital Information Management at University College Dublin
English
Github Skills (61)
umbraco10
content-management-system10
cms10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
headless-cms10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
woocommerce9
wordpress9
cookie9
php9
mdbootstrap8
commerce8
backbonejs8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alanmac/Umbraco-CMS
May 2019 - May 2020
The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 400.000 websites
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
cmsaspasp-net000asp-net-core
alanmac/Umbraco-Validation-Attributes
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
dictionaryasp-net-mvcvalidationaspumbraco
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