Summary
Paul Alford is a senior planner with over two decades of experience in tech roles across mobile, banking, retail, insurance, and outsourcing, currently shaping operational planning at Amazon from Glasgow. He specializes at the intersection of data, software engineering, planning, and automation, routinely simplifying processes that have become unnecessarily complex. His background spans hands-on IT and data management through to strategic planning and BI leadership, giving him a rare blend of technical fluency and operational oversight. Though not yet an active coder, his intent to learn software development complements a career built on enabling engineering teams with practical, data-driven solutions. Colleagues rely on him to turn messy, multi-stakeholder problems into auditable, scalable plans that keep large operations humming.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer