Alan Parkinson
Director at Threat Detective
Epsom and Ewell, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Parkinson is a director and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience helping organisations build safer, more reliable software—especially in regulated medical device environments. As CEO and co-founder of Hindsight Software he pioneered Specification By Example practices to reduce requirement-driven defects, and now leads Threat Detective to help manufacturers meet medical device cybersecurity regulations. He combines product leadership with hands-on engineering and DevOps experience, including contributions to the widely used sbt-native-packager where he improved Debian packaging and init script reliability. Based in Epsom and Ewell, he pairs pragmatic process design with deep operational know-how, often surfacing subtle integration and ownership issues before they reach production.
13 years of coding experience
BSc, Software Engineering, Second-class honours, upper division, BSc, Software Engineering, Second-class honours, upper division at University of the West of EnglandAdvanced GNVQ, Information Communication Technology, Distinction, Advanced GNVQ, Information Communication Technology, Distinction at Guildford College of Higher and Further Education
English
Github Skills (16)
sbt10
automation10
automations10
devops10
debian10
scala10
scripting9
buildr9
shell9
script9
sh9
docker8
dockers8
java7
javas7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sbt/sbt-native-packager
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
sbt Native Packager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the sbt-native-packager project by modifying Debian packaging scripts, focusing on improvements to user/group management, and the correct ownership of installed files. They addressed issues with Debian control scripts, specifically the postinst and postrm scripts, ensuring proper user and group creation/removal. Further contributions included fixing lintian errors and warnings and incorporating `update-rc.d` for init.d script management, enhancing the project's reliability and integration with Debian-based systems. They also added a test to verify daemon user creation in control scripts.
sbt-native-packagersbtscalanative-packagessbt-docker
hindsightsoftware/karma-webdriver-example
Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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