Allister Banks
Senior Client Platform Engineer
Osaka, Japan
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SeniorAllister Banks is a Senior Client Platform Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling client-facing platforms, currently based in Osaka and leading platform work at Indeed. He combines deep technical leadership—shaped by roles from CTO/COO and solutions architect to technical lead—with a practical, production-first mindset developed across startups, enterprise healthcare IT, and large-scale recruitment tech. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has a background that spans front-end/client platforms, infrastructure, and even audio production and stage automation, which reveals a knack for interdisciplinary problem solving. Known informally as "one of the good ones" and self-described as excitable, he brings positive energy to collaborative teams and complex technical challenges. His long tenure at Indeed since 2016 underscores a commitment to durable, maintainable systems and platform-level impact.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (200)
python10
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instrumentation10
osquery10
terraform10
security10
google-cloud10
elasticsearch10
operating-system10
monitoring10
puppet10
splunk10
software-distribution10
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sql10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
arubdesu/office-recipes
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Unofficial (meaning not supported by or affiliated with Microsoft) recipes for autopkg
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 10 months
recipespythonmeaningsupportedautopkg
arubdesu/saltalone
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
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