Summary
Cameron Allan is a platform engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently supporting the SKA Observatory from Perth, Australia. He progressed through engineering and technical lead roles at dunnhumby, where he drove multi-cloud platform architecture as an individual contributor while providing hands-on leadership to a five-engineer squad. Comfortable spanning infra-to-application concerns, he has maintained internal data science platforms and ensured reliable delivery in small, high-performing teams. Cameron holds a First Class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of St Andrews, underscoring a strong technical foundation. He thrives on solving ambiguous problems and is happiest when debugging complex systems end-to-end. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, curious engineer who combines architectural thinking with day-to-day operational skill.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
1st Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science, 1st Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of St Andrews