Michael Allan
Tech Strategy Consultant - Payments
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMichael Allan is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling engineering, SRE, security and data teams across payments and fintech. He has served as CTO and Director of Engineering, most recently standing up a new payments capability and previously leading operational expansion at Zai to deliver resilient, production-grade platforms. Known for blending strategic vision with hands-on delivery, Michael focuses on cost-effective systems design, modern tooling and engineering culture to drive measurable business outcomes. He has a strong front-end roots and delivery pedigree from early roles at ANZ, REA and SEEK, which informs his pragmatic approach to product-facing systems. Unusually for a tech executive, he brings deep humanities training (MA/PhD-level study in contemporary philosophy and literature), which sharpens his strategic thinking and people-centered leadership. Based in Melbourne, he excels at turning complex regulatory and partner ecosystems into scalable, repeatable payments operations.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Grad.Dip. IT Web Technologies stream, Grad.Dip. IT Web Technologies stream at Swinburne University of TechnologyThe University of MelbournePh.D. Contemporary European Philosophy, Ph.D. Contemporary European Philosophy at Monash University
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Github Skills (17)
react-mapbox-gl8
mapbox-gl-js7
mapbox-gl7
binding7
react6
static-site6
storybook3
markdown2
angular2
yelp1
redux1
kraken1
primitive1
shopping-cart1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
growlybear/gumroad-clone
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 1 day
growlybear/awesome-chat
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 3 days
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