Alan Norton
Software Engineer at iCapital
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlan Norton is an experienced software engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling teams and systems, currently serving as SVP of Software Engineering at iCapital after Parallel Markets' acquisition. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by CI/CD, macOS-specific tooling, and testing improvements for the popular puma-dev repo—with a track record of operational leadership from startups to fintech. Alan has held technical executive roles including CTO at MealPal and senior SRE leadership at Oscar Health, pairing pragmatic infrastructure improvements with team coaching and decision-oriented communication. Based in San Diego, he is known for improving maintainability and testability across projects and for translating engineering trade-offs into clear business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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github-ci10
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githubaction-workflow10
go-testing10
testing10
build-automation9
bash8
macos8
cicd8
handlebars6
sublime-text6
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Github contributions (5)
puma/puma-dev
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
A tool to manage rack apps in development with puma
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 9 reviews, 66 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on building and improving the infrastructure and build processes for the `puma-dev` project. They implemented a release script and improved the testing framework with new utilities, including stdout capture. The user also made changes to the build system, added macOS-specific functionality, and implemented a CI/CD workflow with GitHub Actions. These contributions significantly improved the project's maintainability and testability.
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puma/homebrew-puma
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Homebrew formula tap
Contributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 11 months
homebrewhomebrew-formula
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