Alan Stott
Head Of Engineering at Amplifyd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Stott is a Head of Engineering based in London with 12 years of experience building enterprise cloud web applications that prioritise performance, real-time behaviour, security and low latency. He has held senior technical and leadership roles across startups and established firms—co-founding KARVE.io, serving as CTO at BlockEx and Amplifyd, and leading engineering teams at io.tt and Pynea—demonstrating an ability to scale products and teams in regulated financial and blockchain-adjacent environments. Alan spans the full stack with a pragmatic focus on high-throughput APIs and performant UIs across devices, and he routinely balances hands-on architecture with strategic technology advising. A background in special effects gives him an unusual visual and systems-oriented perspective on UX and performance engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc(Hons) Special Effects, BSc(Hons) Special Effects at London South Bank University
Github Skills (71)
guardian10
javascript9
mongoose9
linux9
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e2e-test9
nodejs9
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windows8
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android-sdk8
testing7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
The Guardian DotCom.
Contributions:75 commits in 1 month
productionguardian
Automattic/monk
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
The wise MongoDB API
Contributions:1 comment in 1 year
apimongodb-apiwisenodejsmongoose
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