Alan Wright
Chief Technology Officer at Spendesk
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Wright is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in the Greater Cambridge area, bringing over 25 years of engineering and product development experience across startups and large organisations. He has a strong track record building and scaling high-performing platform and infrastructure teams at companies including Spendesk, Signal AI, Freetrade, Monzo, and Spotify. Alan combines hands-on systems and distributed services experience with strategic leadership, guiding teams through cloud-native, machine learning-enabled, and spend-management product domains. He is equally comfortable driving tactical engineering delivery and shaping long-term technology vision, with particular strength in platform reliability and developer productivity. A Cambridge-based CTO who rose through deep infrastructure roles, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a talent for developing technical leaders.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Georgia College, MilledgevilleBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at De Montfort University
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Github Skills (27)
lucene10
google-cloud-datastore10
java10
stl10
cpp10
sorting10
winapi9
asynchronous9
search-engine9
windows9
guid9
mongodb6
boost6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/async-datastore-client
Jun 2015 - May 2022
A modern and feature-rich Asynchronous Java client for Google Cloud Datastore
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 PRs, 45 pushes in 7 years
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