Alan Colver
Staff Solutions Architect
- Utah
- US
- Github: acolver
- GitHub (other): accolver
- LinkedIn: Alan Colver
Summary
I am highly technical with strong interest in software development, data management, and machine learning. I have helped grow startups and smaller teams by 10-20x by focusing on delivering scalable value to customers quickly. In these roles, I have lead domestic and foreign software development teams. I also have a successful history in sales, where I've closed substantial deals with large state and federal (US) customers. When I commit to something, I see it through to the end to ensure realizing the desired results.
Work
Sales Engineer & Staff Cloud Solutions Architect
- Closed $XXM and influenced $XXXM in software deals across US public sector
- Designed and guided on-prem to cloud data center migrations for several US states
- Built React/Typescript application for all of Google Public Sector's demos and sales plays with GenAI features
- Enabled sales team by building 20+ demos showcasing Google Cloud's capabilities in the public sector. Built with many technologies including Python, React, Typescript, Terraform, GenAI, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Beam, Pub/Sub, custom AI/ML models, and more
- Built partner-facing portal and onboarded many partners for collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Modernized dozens of customer applications through in-depth discovery, design, and implementing in an agile fashion
- Trained hundreds of cloud practitioners on methodologies and best practices for cloud deployments through custom-tailored workshops and many conference talks
- Led a team of 15 developers including project planning, code review, and mentoring
Lendio (Sunrise Accounting)
Director of Engineering
- Lead local and international teams of developers to consistently meet vital company milestones
- Developed the data strategy for the company including multi-source ingestion, cleaning, and visualization
- Reduced the average developer set up time from 4 days to 1 hour by containerizing legacy apps
Lendio
Sr. Data Architect
- Increased company revenue by 6% by using machine learning to match borrowers with lenders
- Increased online lead sign-up rate by 27% by using machine learning to streamline onboarding
- Created the company's machine learning platform to serve real-time predictions
- Led Lendio's data warehousing project. Worked closely with many stakeholders and consulting partners to ensure requirements were met
- Mentored and trained 10+ developers in full-stack development and data engineering
- Built majority portions of client-facing web applications and internal tools
Siemens Health Care
Web Developer
EMR management software
- Completed Meaningful Use audit for EHR management
- Finished projects an average of 60% ahead of schedule
Volunteer
Church of Jesus Christ
Volunteer
Assisted individuals in both physical and spiritual matters in London, England
- Provided 10,000+ hours of service
Education
Brigham Young University
Bioinformatics
- Taught Molecular Biology (TA)
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
- Genetics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Bayesian Statistics
- Advanced Programming
- Computer Security
- Internet Programming
Carnegie Mellon University
Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
- Advanced Business Analytics
- Applied Data Science
- Data Mining
- Database Management
- Economic Analysis
- Enterprise Architecture
- Exploring and Visualizing Data
- Stats for IT Managers
Awards
Innovator MVP
Significant Impact
Employee of the Year
Lendio
Publications
Demo Overviews
A selection of prototypes showing how cloud technologies can be used to solve vertical use cases. Contact me if you'd like access.
Deploy Google Cloud in a few clicks with RAD Lab UI
RAD Lab enables fast deployment to Google Cloud. RAD Lab UI makes it even easier for admins to configure 1-click deployable modules for their teams. RAD Lab UI is essentially a modern CI/CD (powered by Terraform) interface with integrated IAM.
breakdown.cloud
Breakdown is a real-time, graph-based task management system. Continually break down tasks into bite-size pieces, complete those, and before you know it you've completed your entire project. Free to use, mobile responsive, web based UI (powered by Svelte).
Directed next generation sequencing for phylogenetics
ScienceDirect
DNA sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree construction to validate next-generation sequencing methodology.
Skills
- GCP Principle Architect Certified
- GCP Data Engineer Certified
- AWS & Azure Development
- Databases (Relational, Graph, Document)
- Data Engineering (Beam, Airflow)
- Data Governance and Security
- SQL, Python, R
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
- Full-stack application development
- Linux, Docker, Terraform
- Typescript/Javascript, NodeJS, Python, PHP, Perl, R, Elixir
References
I can't say enough good things about Alan. He is smart, thoughtful in his work, attentive to detail, results and data oriented in focus, and always striving to make improvements to any project he finds himself in or managing. He is a leader and strong collaborator, is driven and passionate about his work and his family, and a great example of what an asset to a company and team should be. Many look up to him, and many will strive to emulate him, but that is a monumental task few will ever accomplish fully.
Miles Victors, Lendio - Engineering Team Lead
He is not only smart, but cheery and optimistic; traits that make him a enjoyable to work with. If I were to describe Alan in a few words I’d say he is a well-rounded, determined and ambitious. He is focused and driven, with the ambition, and I might add the mental facilities, to make him a stellar employee. He has diverse interests, a curious nature, is responsible, and focused. Temperamentally, he is has a good sense of humor. My experience is that he is stress resilient. He seems to take setbacks and criticisms as a challenge to conquer and improve. I highly recommend him.