
Chris Allen
Chris Allen is a highly experienced architect, innovator and CTO. With over twenty years experience in the electronics... | Greater Ipswich Area, Greater Ipswich Area, United Kingdom
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Chris Allen’s Expertise Chris Allen is a highly experienced architect, innovator and CTO. With over twenty years experience in the electronics and computer industries he offers a wealth of knowledge in systems architecture, cloud computing, performance, scalability and cyber security. He is able to provide high-level guidance to C-Teams based on a deep and detailed understanding of low level technology, infrastructure and architecture. KEY SKILLS - Cloud computing - architecture, migration, scalability, security, troubleshooting, and cost management. Has been using AWS since 2008 and has a working knowledge of Google Cloud. Familiar with CloudFormation and Terraform and capable of creating robust Infrastructure-as-a-service. Has designed systems scaling to petabytes of data and tens of millions of users. - Systems architecture - designing for the future. Scalability, security and performance. Skilled at improving the performance and throughput of internet systems - particularly legacy and obscure architecture. - Internet of Things and hardware. - Able to bridge the gap between software and hardware. Comfortable working with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, assembly code and python, and building real-world products. - Technologies - In-depth knowledge of the tech and infrastructure used to build the internet. Linux guru, competent with MS Windows, networking, databases, noSQL, Python, Perl, Javascript, nodeJS. - Security - Pen testing and threat modelling. Able to spot risks/vulnerabilites from basic inspection of source code. Able to advise on security strategy including for migration to the cloud. HISTORY As CTO of Design256, Chris has designed complete software and hardware solutions for pharmaceutical and other industries. As a founder member and Chief Scientist of PhotoBox, he built their original web platform and was directly responsible for many of their most successful technical projects. As an independent technologist, CTO and architect, Chris has assisted a number of technology enterprises with their architecture, scalability and security.
Chris Allen’s Current Industry Plum Software
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Allen’s Prior Industry
Power Computing
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Shottisham Designs
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Design256
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Photobox
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Silver Arrow Systems
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Peoplevox
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Ontrack Management Solutions
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Plum Software
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Work Experience

Plum Software
Chief Architect
Sat Feb 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Ontrack Management Solutions
CTO
Sun Dec 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Present
Peoplevox
Chief Architect
Sat Sep 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Sun Mar 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Silver Arrow Systems
Chief Architect
Sun Jul 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Jul 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Design256
CTO
Fri Aug 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue May 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Photobox
Chief Scientist
Mon May 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Jun 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Photobox
Director of web services
Mon May 01 2000 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Tue Jul 01 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Design256
IT Director
Mon Sep 01 1997 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Aug 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Shottisham Designs
Owner
Wed Apr 01 1992 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Fri Aug 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Power Computing
Product designer
Sat Jul 01 1989 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) — Wed Apr 01 1992 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)