Alastair Appleby
Software Engineer at ENAPI
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlastair Appleby is a seasoned Software Engineer with seven years' experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems across AWS and GCP. Comfortable in Go, Python, JavaScript and PHP, he blends hands-on engineering with infrastructure and database expertise, having designed CLIs, APIs and Kubernetes-deployed services for companies like Crate.io and New Relic. As founder of Gigapipe he shipped a managed real-time big data ingestion and query platform, and at 24metrics he architected services that handled billions of daily requests while leading engineering and DevOps. Now based in Barcelona, he focuses on secure, scalable platforms for the EV industry at ENAPI, bringing both product-level ownership and practical project management to cross-functional teams. A former law student, he combines analytical rigor with a pragmatic, automation-first approach to solving distributed systems challenges.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Access To HE (Law) English History and Law, Access To HE (Law) English History and Law at West Suffolk CollegeBachelor of Laws - LLB Law, Bachelor of Laws - LLB Law at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (69)
kubernetes-helm10
cratedb9
lucene9
database8
sql8
command-line-interface8
postgresql8
newrelic8
time-series8
ingest8
vector-database7
elasticsearch7
embedded7
cpp7
flex7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gigapipehq/loggen
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 34 commits in 1 month
alijared/ferrum
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
A high-performance log management system
Contributions:26 PRs, 24 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
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