John Allen
About John Allen
John Allen is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in systems and platform engineering. He has worked for various companies, including Demonware, Ryanair, and NewsWhip, and has developed tools to enhance infrastructure reliability and efficiency.
Work at NewsWhip
John Allen has been employed at NewsWhip as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer since 2021. In this role, he has implemented monitoring, metric collection, graphing, configuration management, and version control strategies for infrastructure management. He has also contributed to the development of a multi-project hosting platform using open source software, enhancing the company's operational capabilities.
Previous Employment History
Before joining NewsWhip, John Allen held various positions in the technology sector. He worked at Demonware as a Platform Engineer from 2014 to 2017 and as a Service Reliability Engineer from 2011 to 2014. He was a Unix Administrator at Ryanair for five months in 2010 and served as a Systems Engineer at eir Ireland from 2018 to 2019. His experience also includes roles at Workday as a Senior System Engineer from 2019 to 2021, NewBay Software as a Senior Operations Engineer in 2011, and Neohapsis as a Senior Unix Administrator from 2003 to 2008.
Education and Expertise
John Allen studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he focused on Information Technology and achieved a degree in Information Systems from 2014 to 2016. His educational background supports his expertise in infrastructure engineering and systems management, which he has applied in various roles throughout his career.
Technical Skills and Contributions
In his career, John Allen has developed Python-based management tools to enhance reliability and reduce workload for managing approximately 1000 MySQL instances. He has gained experience with oVirt and Gluster for managing virtual machines in his current role. Additionally, he has provided guidance on managing project work and communication in a geographically diverse team, showcasing his leadership and collaborative skills.