Alan Mcgovern
Software Engineering Manager at Stripe
Ireland
Summary
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RockstarAlan Mcgovern is a seasoned software engineering manager with 19 years of experience building and scaling developer tools and core infrastructure, currently leading Test Infrastructure at Stripe to improve CI reliability and efficiency for thousands of engineers. He combines deep runtime and cross-platform expertise from a long history with Mono, Xamarin and Visual Studio—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like mono and Xamarin.Forms and solving tricky runtime, GC and interop issues. Alan is pragmatic and hands-on: he’s implemented low-level networking and file-system features (e.g., UPNP/NAT-PMP port forwarding, symlink handling) and improved Android and desktop UI toolkits while driving team delivery and cross-org collaboration at Microsoft. Known for diagnosing subtle production problems, he pairs systems-level code changes with process improvements to shorten time-to-ready and ship reliable releases. Based in Ireland, he brings rare depth in both manager and individual-contributor roles, able to translate complex runtime faults into actionable engineering plans.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (44)
git10
filesystem10
garbage-collector10
mobile-development10
runtimes10
testing10
net10
upnp10
xamarin10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
ui-design10
networking10
android-development10
netframework10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alanmcgovern/Mono.Nat
Dec 2006 - Oct 2022
UPNP and NAT-PMP port forwarding for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 10 reviews, 168 commits in 16 years
Contributions summary:Alan's contributions center on the development of a .NET library for UPNP and NAT-PMP port forwarding. They implemented core features, including creating and deleting port mappings, and retrieving external IP addresses. The user also added example code and improved compatibility with various routers by addressing case sensitivity issues and refining the codebase to work better with real-world network configurations.
dotnetport-forwardingupnp
mono/ngit
Jan 2012 - Jul 2013
Automated jgit port to c#
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 4 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alan contributed to the porting of a Java-based JGit implementation to C#, a project focused on providing a C# implementation of a git library. Their commits show a focus on handling Unix-specific file system operations, manipulating symlinks, and integrating with Mono.Unix libraries. The changes indicate a focus on core functionality, specifically ensuring the library correctly interacts with the file system and supports necessary Git features like symlinks.
csharpjgit
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