Alan Williamson
Chief Technology Officer at HiBid Auctions
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Williamson is an interim CTO and seasoned technology leader with nearly 30 years of experience modernizing and scaling high-volume, transaction-heavy platforms—particularly in private equity-backed environments where speed and execution matter. He has led multi-year rearchitectures from monolithic legacy systems to cloud-native, API-driven microservices at companies like HiBid and Royall, turning technology from a bottleneck into a growth engine. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer (from embedded firmware reverse-engineering to large-scale distributed systems) and as an advisor to boards and PE firms, he combines deep technical craft with pragmatic delivery discipline. Alan has built and scaled global onshore/offshore engineering organizations, driven cloud migrations and cost reductions, and authored the practical guide "Think Like a CTO." Recently he’s focused on applied AI—designing agents, experimenting with retrieval strategies and deploying models on AWS Bedrock and SageMaker where they deliver measurable business impact. Based in Virginia, he leverages prior recognition as the UK’s first Java Champion to blend developer community credibility with executive-level technology strategy.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science with Digital Control, Bachelor's degree Computer Science with Digital Control at University of Paisley
Github Skills (112)
expressjs10
dm10
javascript9
javascript-client9
azure-functions9
mermaid9
server9
aws9
sequence9
mindmap9
mysql9
java9
aws-lambda9
serverless-framework9
nodejs9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBD/openbd-core
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
The original open source Java powered GPL CFML runtime engine
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 5 months
gplcfmlruntimerundeckjava-source
aw20/MongoWorkBench
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 3 months
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