Allan Frese
Site Reliability Engineer at Trustpilot
Region Zealand, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAllan Frese is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating large Unix/Linux and cloud-native platforms across AWS and GCP. He specializes in automating infrastructure and alerting pipelines, enabling product teams to own services through their lifecycle and scaling systems reliably during peak traffic events. A pragmatic engineer and certified Scrum Master, Allan blends high-level system design with hands-on tooling—Chef, Puppet, Saltstack and IaC—to keep solutions simple, maintainable and observable. He has led multi-region cloud network builds and self-service portals at Trustpilot, introduced chaos-style "monkeys" for automated validation, and previously managed global mobile service platforms serving hundreds of millions. Comfortable in cross-cultural, multi-site organizations, he pairs strong communication and leadership with deep expertise in databases, messaging and CI/CD. An active contributor to practical open-source tooling, he refactors and modernizes integrations (notably a PagerDuty xbar plugin) to improve operational usability.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Engineering at Technical University of Denmark
Github Skills (10)
ruby10
pagerduty10
bitbar10
api10
apidoc10
plugin10
httparty10
curl9
json9
tooling9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
matryer/xbar-plugins
Jan 2016 - Jun 2021
Plugin repository for xbar (the BitBar reboot)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Allan primarily contributed to the development of a BitBar plugin for PagerDuty, significantly enhancing its functionality and usability. They initially built the plugin using Ruby and curl, and then rewrote it to use HTTParty. The user later refactored the plugin to read configuration from a file and integrated with the PagerDuty API. Further updates included enhancements such as API v2 upgrade and display incident details.
bitbarxbarplugins
frese/bitbar-plugins
Jan 2016 - Jun 2021
Plugin repository for BitBar
Contributions:19 pushes in 5 years 5 months
bitbarplugin-repositoryplugin
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