Alan Pope
Senior Developer Advocate
Rushmoor, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlan Pope is a Senior Developer Advocate with over 12 years shaping developer ecosystems, most notably bootstrapping app publication for Ubuntu’s Linux App Store and driving thousands of storefront submissions. He blends hands-on engineering and people leadership—running developer relations teams, engineering teams for open-source projects like Telegraf, and delivering training, docs, and conference talks that translate technical needs into product change. A long-standing Ubuntu community contributor and co-founder of Ubuntu MATE, he pairs corporate roles at Canonical, InfluxData, and Anchore with volunteer stewardship that keeps him deeply embedded in open source. He also produces and hosts technology podcasts, bringing an upbeat, accessible voice to Linux topics and community building. Based in the UK, he’s equal parts technical integrator and communicator, known for building tooling and processes that “automate the team out of repetitive work” while championing developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
telegraf10
ubuntu10
cryptocurrency10
micro10
spotify10
scanner10
matrix10
sarif10
squash10
obs10
api10
vulnerabilities10
json10
nvenc10
irc-server10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
popey/azimuth-snap
Apr 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 4 months
snapcrafters/tcpie
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
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