As a solution architect, technology leader, and consultant, Allan has over 15 years of proven success in designing innovative solution architecture for clients in the public and private cloud across different industries. His technical expertise includes cloud platforms, DevOps, site reliability, big data, SaaS software development, and process automation. Allan excels in leading large-scale and complex digital enterprise transformation initiatives.
Participated in cloud-native solution designs and delivered high-quality solutions to the customer as part of the OpsGuru Vancouver team.
Provided deep technical expertise and leadership across several technologies, including cloud migration, Kubernetes, Helm, data lake, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
Drove architecture design and tool selection, resolved complex engineering issues, and guided best practices.
Led teams of cloud engineers to execute project roadmaps, guiding them in technical tasks and priorities and providing technical assistance when needed.
Recommended cloud-based solutions that improved the operational efficiency of public cloud operations.
Advised on best practices for configuration management and IaC.
Developed CI/CD pipelines and future state architectures.
Communicated with clients on a business level and translated their needs into technical cloud solutions.
Oversaw technology operations as co-founder and CTO of this data technology company providing SaaS-based retail data intelligence to retail enterprises.
Wrote most of the back-end and data-processing system code. Utilized PHP for the back end and SQL on PostgreSQL for ETL and algorithm-based batch jobs.
Designed, implemented, and configured the solution architecture for transforming the product delivery model into a DevOps process with Kubernetes and Jenkins automation software.
Improved processes by developing standard toolkits for collecting and processing desensitization data from customers, decreasing manual labor and cost by 70%, increasing processing speed by 50%, and enhancing data accuracy by 30%.
Managed large-scale, high-profile accounts for enterprise and government customers.
Provided consulting services to key customers for solution architecture and strategic planning, including server migration, server consolidation, virtual desktop management, disaster recovery, security, and private cloud computing.
Developed highly detailed proof of concepts (POCs) to establish the value of solutions for customers.
Spearheaded development efforts for the vRealize Suite of management solutions focused on increasing customer migrations from core server virtualization to software-defined data centers, DevOps, and private cloud.
VMware ESXi
VMware vCloud
VMware vCenter
Symantec
Solution Architect
2005 - 2012 (7 years)
Remote
Collaborated with a global team as a developer for the Backup Exec software on the Linux platform using C++ and Perl scripts from 2005 to 2007.
Delivered comprehensive solution architecture support to the local sales team and the China Engineering Center team from 2007 to 2010.
Engineered highly effective architectures for data management and security solutions from 2010 to 2012.
One of Canada's most famous live meeting streaming vendors was expected to migrate all its core applications from Oracle Cloud to AWS. As the lead solution architect, I helped the customer start their AWS journey.This project included terraforming all the AWS infrastructure, including Amazon: Virtual Private Cloud, Relational Database Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Identity and Access Management, ElastiCache, and MQ. I also created Helm charts for all core applications, handled business continuity and disaster recovery, and performed blue/green deployments on Kubernetes. Additionally, I built a customized Kubernetes autoscaling tool on Oracle Cloud.
A fast-growing automation SaaS company expected to expand its footprint from GCP to AWS, following its cloud-agnostic strategy. Meanwhile, they wanted to leverage the industry-leading data platform Databricks on AWS to better manage their data in the data lake.I drove the design and implementation of the infrastructure to support the core application running on Kubernetes and the data lake on Databricks.
A leading online learning management system needed help building a new CI/CD pipeline with AWS Code Family, including CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline. I led this project's solution design and implementation.
A leading Canadian healthcare marketing company wanted to estimate the feasibility and effort of replacing the MS SQL database with a modernized Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. I took the leading role in designing the database migration strategy with AWS Database Migration Service and Babelfish on PostgreSQL.
A leading Web Archive company considered migrating the core on-premise services to AWS.I engaged as the subject-matter expert, helping customers assess the cost and feasibility of adopting the new services on AWS, including EKS, OpenSearch, Keyspaces, Cassandra, Ceph, and DataSync, when retiring the on-premise Elasticsearch. I also led the POC creation to verify the data migration on Elasticsearch and Cassandra.
