Alistair Davidson
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Easol
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlistair Davidson is a senior software engineer and team lead with over 25 years of systems design and development experience and 16 years in senior roles, specialising in web architecture, cloud platforms and technical leadership across startups and government. He has repeatedly taken early-stage ideas to production—founding and scaling Quill Content to an £11.5m valuation and building safety-critical, cloud-native services for the Ministry of Justice that saved large operational costs. Technically fluent across Ruby, Rails, Python, C/C++, SQL and modern cloud tooling (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform), he combines hands-on engineering with architecture and platform strategy. He’s particularly interested in AI, NLP and data-driven social software, and has a track record of prototyping novel solutions (from facial-recognition microservices to blockchain proposals for evidential trust). Comfortable in both high-hustle startups and large public-sector transformation programmes, he also invests in recruitment, mentoring and improving delivery processes. Based in England, he brings an uncommon blend of product-oriented startup grit and disciplined, safety-conscious government engineering.
16 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. hons 2:1 Physics (specialising in Astrophysics), BSc. hons 2:1 Physics (specialising in Astrophysics) at University of Durham (Van Mildert College)A levels: 3As 1B Physics Chemistry Maths General Studies, A levels: 3As 1B Physics Chemistry Maths General Studies at Headlands School, Bridlington
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (127)
pair-programming10
cloud-platform10
puppet10
equivalent10
container10
mongodb10
resource-management10
migration10
api9
apply9
ruby9
devrel9
c1009
publish9
infrastructure9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/postcodeinfo
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
REST API for looking up a given UK Postcode and getting addresses, lat/long, and local authority info
Contributions:106 PRs, 176 pushes, 75 branches in 2 years 11 months
apilataddresseslongrest
alphagov/content-store-proxy
May 2023 - Nov 2023
Mirroring proxy to enable dual-running of MongoDB & PostgreSQL versions of content-store during migration
Contributions:16 reviews, 50 PRs, 77 pushes in 6 months
containergovukruby
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