Alastair Gould
Senior II Software Engineer at ASOS.com
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlastair Gould is a Senior II Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and delivering distributed systems, currently driving backend architecture at ASOS. He specializes in the .NET stack—ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, NServiceBus, CQRS and DDD—combined with Azure-based microservices and a strong emphasis on continuous delivery. A pragmatic agile advocate, he routinely brings XP, Kanban and Scrum practices to teams and has a track record of introducing CI/CD, automated deployments and code review workflows that improved release predictability. His background spans e-commerce and ERP integrations, mobile apps and messaging middleware, reflecting a mindset that values both scalable architecture and developer experience. Colleagues would describe him as a hands-on engineer who balances pragmatic engineering with process discipline to keep products always shippable.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Advanced Computer Science, Distinction, MSc Advanced Computer Science, Distinction at The University of BirminghamBSc(Hons), Computer Science, BSc(Hons), Computer Science at The University of Wolverhampton
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Github Skills (30)
rpm-spec8
steam8
azure-powershell7
windows-service7
proton7
jquery-ui6
azure-pipelines6
azure6
driver6
xcode6
xhtml6
android6
docker-machine6
linux6
x866
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alastairgould/docker-machine-driver-kvm2-rpm
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
The rpm spec and associated files for creating a docker-machine-driver-kvm2 rpm for fedora
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 6 months
docker-machinedriverfedorarpm-spec
alastairgould/Implode
May 2019 - Apr 2021
A small library which extends asp.net core healthchecks to run, and then crash the application on startup in the case of a unhealthy health check.
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
unhealthydotnetasphealthhealthchecks
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