Speaker

Mark Allan

Mark Allan

Software engineer, Microsoft MVP

Belfast, United Kingdom

Mark is a software engineer and Microsoft MVP and has learnt his trade from 35 years of mistakes. He's an expat Mancunian (red half) but has lived in his adopted home of Northern Ireland for nearly half his life.

He's been a professional developer since the 1980s, mostly freelance, and has worked on a myriad of projects for everything from local startups and councils to multinational corporations and federal government departments. In search of a quieter life, he now works full time for Gearset in their Belfast office.

While something of a technology omnivore, particularly if it's new and shiny, he currently tends towards React front-ends sitting on top of scalable cloud-first services, using a functional, event-driven and reactive approach. He's also a big advocate of the DevOps mindset.

In his spare time he's a STEM Ambassador, CoderDojo mentor, Barefoot volunteer and organiser of the Northern Ireland Developer Conference.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cloud Computing on the Azure Platform
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure CosmosDB
  • Azure PaaS
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • .NET
  • C#.Net

Cloud Community Conference Cologne Sessionize Event

June 2021 Köln, Germany

Certification Saturday 2020 Sessionize Event

December 2020

Virtual Azure Community Day Sessionize Event

December 2020

Global Azure Virtual Sessionize Event

April 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

Global Online Azure Bootcamp - Ireland Sessionize Event

April 2019 Dublin, Ireland

Microsoft Ignite | The Tour London

Session - "Hosting and Scaling Service-Based Applications on Azure"

February 2019 London, United Kingdom

DevConf LK 2019 (Letterkenny, Ireland Sessionize Event

February 2019 Letterkenny, Ireland

Mark Allan

Software engineer, Microsoft MVP

Belfast, United Kingdom