Alasdair Allan
Chief Technology Officer at Negroni Venture Studios
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlasdair Allan is a CTO and technologist with 24 years of experience bridging astrophysics, embedded hardware, and machine learning to build products and teams that ship. Currently leading technology at Negroni Venture Studios and formerly Head of Documentation at Raspberry Pi, he combines deep hands-on expertise in wireless devices, sensor networks, and embedded compute with a talent for making complex systems understandable and usable. He has authored academic papers, books, and standards, benchmarked next‑generation ML accelerator hardware, and contributed to high‑impact open projects such as the iPhoneTracker analysis and Raspberry Pi documentation. A recovering astrophysicist, he once built an autonomous peer‑to‑peer telescope network that contributed to one of the most distant object detections, and he brings that same systems thinking to product engineering and startup scale‑ups. Notably, his career mixes serious technical leadership with a hacker’s curiosity—whether on microcontrollers, mesh networks, or famously meddling with hotel radios.
24 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Astronomy, MSci, Astronomy at University of St AndrewsPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Keele University
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Github Skills (21)
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ios10
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mobile-development10
mobile-application10
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documentation10
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css8
raspberry-pi7
bittorrent6
jekyll6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
petewarden/iPhoneTracker
Apr 2011 - Jul 2017
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alasdair primarily contributed to the iOS application, focusing on data retrieval from the device backups. They worked on parsing files, extracting device information from plist files, and retrieving location data from the consolidated database. Additionally, the user implemented UI elements and added an about box for the application.
raspberrypi/documentation
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The official documentation for Raspberry Pi computers and microcontrollers
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 815 reviews, 966 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alasdair primarily contributed to the documentation of the Raspberry Pi project. Their commits focused on modifying and improving the documentation's formatting, content, and structure. This included updating copyright information, fixing spelling errors, and making adjustments to the 404 error page for improved user experience. The user also incorporated search functionality, indicating an effort to improve the usability of the documentation.
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