John Allen

John Allen is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience in infrastructure and systems engineering. Currently serving as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at NewsWhip since December 2021, John previously held positions including Senior System Engineer at Workday, where responsibilities included managing over 40,000 Linux servers and resolving performance issues. Other notable roles include Systems Engineer at eir Ireland, focusing on automation with Ansible and database solutions, and Platform Engineer at Demonware, where John developed a management agent for MySQL instances. John’s career also features positions as a Senior Operations Engineer at NewBay Software, Unix Administrator at Ryanair, Linux Administrator at IE Domain Registry, and Senior Unix Administrator at Neohapsis, supplemented by an early role as a Technician at Pat Lee Electrical and Managed Services Analyst at SiteLite.com. John holds a degree in Information Systems from Trinity College Dublin.