Alison Johnston
Head Of Engineering - Global Payments Solutions at HSBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlison Johnston is a seasoned technology leader with 11+ years’ experience scaling engineering organisations across finance and professional services, currently heading a 500‑strong global engineering team for HSBC Connect Digital. She combines hands‑on architectural judgement with commercial acumen, having driven cloud migrations, containerisation and DevOps practices that supported a payments platform processing over 10 million files annually. Alison is known for turning complex controls into automated, efficient value streams—reducing toil by 40% and cutting release downtime while doubling developer productivity using DORA/SPACE metrics. Her career spans senior roles at Cardano and Goldman Sachs where she led platform stabilisation, order‑management modernisation and a shift from legacy desktop to full‑stack web and containerised deployments. A pragmatic people leader, she builds high‑autonomy teams across time zones and embeds measurable engineering principles to align technology strategy with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Physics, Bachelor of Applied Physics at University of Technology, Sydney
Github Skills (70)
docker10
passport-azure-ad9
container-management9
rancher9
orchestration9
facebook9
kubernetes9
cattle9
msal-js8
idl8
javascript8
cardano8
testing8
api7
typescript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cardano/cardano.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
Cardano Engineering
Contributions:1 review, 90 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 3 months
cardano
chookie/pluralsight-coursework
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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