Allan Shone
Staff Engineer at Buildkite
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAllan Shone is a Staff Engineer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience building reliable, secure, and automated infrastructure for fast-moving product teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Golang, automation, security and CI/CD with proven leadership across systems engineering and SRE roles at companies like Buildkite, Heap, Deputy and Yahoo. Known for shepherding platform lifecycles and improving delivery processes, he moves comfortably between coding, architecture and people leadership and is now expanding into direct management. Allan’s background in security engineering and quality initiatives gives him a pragmatic risk-aware approach to productivity and resilience. He enjoys bringing clarity and direction to complex technical domains and mentoring peers to raise engineering standards across an organisation.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science (Software Engineering), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science (Software Engineering) at University of New England (AU)
English, australian english
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Github Skills (83)
id3v2-tag10
continuous-delivery10
lambda10
continuous-deployment10
id310
buildkite10
continuous-integration10
build-agent10
cicd10
go10
id3v210
docker10
aws10
charts9
helm9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cloudcloud/docker-images
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
A collection of base images for Docker
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
base-imagesdocker-imagedocker
CerealBoy/go-vue-skeleton
May 2019 - Dec 2020
A skeleton for a stand-alone app with Go + Vue
Contributions:24 reviews, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
golangstand-alonestandskeletonvue
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