Summary
Allan Brisbane is an engineering leader with 13 years’ experience building and scaling data-intensive systems across fintech, e‑commerce and ML-driven products, now leading engineering at Plum in the UK. He has a track record of turning high-throughput analytics and data platforms into reliable, production-ready services—having scaled warehouses to terabytes, migrated platforms across clouds, and improved ML deployment cadence by 3x. As a hands-on manager he’s grown and led distributed teams, introduced pragmatic process improvements (shorter MRs, CI automation, ADRs) and boosted performance during peak seasons by 30%. He’s navigated startups through acquisitions and enterprise audits, balancing product delivery with compliance and cost optimisation. Notably, he often reduces build time and operating expense through smart infra choices (Kubernetes, multi-cloud) and selective third-party integration. Colleagues describe him as a practical systems thinker who improves both code and engineering culture to accelerate predictable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer