Alan Snelson
Open Source Consultant at Wave2 Limited
Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlan Snelson is an Open Source Consultant with over 25 years of hands-on IT experience and 16 years focused on software engineering, specialising in DevOps/DevSecOps, cloud and infrastructure security, and application monitoring. He has driven modernization and automation across finance and airline enterprises—shaping tooling and secure infrastructure at organisations such as HSBC, Nomura, and IAG—while running Wave2 Limited as his long-standing consultancy. Alan blends deep systems and database expertise with a pragmatic architecture mindset, delivering scalable, auditable solutions that reduce operational risk. Known for turning complex compliance and performance challenges into repeatable automation, he pairs technical leadership with practical implementation. Based in Chelmsford, he also brings a creative edge as an electronic music producer, reflecting a curiosity that fuels both technical problem-solving and side projects.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
json10
monitoring10
telegraf10
kafka10
time-series10
agent10
golang10
xpath10
modbus10
grafana9
mqtt9
prometheus9
influxdb9
agile8
aws-sdk7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wave2/dbinterrogator
Jun 2010 - Jul 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 4 pushes in 8 years 2 months
wave2/filerecorder
May 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 60 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
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