Your Instructor
Alan Barr is a Technical Product Manager at mortgage company. He has worked in a variety of roles as a Software Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Quality Assurance Architect and now a product manager of the internal software platform. The majority of Alan's experience is in web marketing companies and mortgages. He fell into the world of technology unexpectedly after teaching English in South Korea. From that point he had the opportunity to work on impactful products such as a Content Management System that hosted 10000 Veterinarian, Chiropractic, and small business marketing websites all with PHP and MySQL. As well as an innovative CMS platform called Blueprint that runs many automotive dealership and inventory websites such as Jaguar/Land Rover and niche marketing websites on AWS with CouchDB, Elastic Search and PHP. Alan now focuses on enabling a variety of initiatives such as microservice orchestration, data lake, and data streaming and flow technologies. Alan continues to be passionate about creating robust high quality software and improving software testing.