Summary
Alastair Smith is a Senior Software Developer based in Cambridge with 16 years of experience building cloud-native .NET systems and data engineering pipelines. He combines deep expertise in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET (MVC and Core), Docker and Kubernetes with hands-on Spark work to deliver scalable, testable services. His career spans product and platform roles—from designing document-processing and GDPR-aware extraction systems to leading engineering at ieso and now contributing to 1Password’s SaaS management. A natural coach and mentor, he drives agile adoption and developer productivity while balancing architecture, operability and delivery. Outside of product roles he’s founded a startup, giving him practical experience in product thinking and end-to-end ownership.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Warwick