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Hi, I'm Alan Coppin, an Engineering Manager leading a distributed 14-person team across New Zealand and Australia. I accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and modernize technical foundations while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership. I blend frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, Remix) with a strong backend, observability, and DevOps discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. I champion async, distributed collaboration, pod structures, and weekly rhythms that improve throughput, quality, and customer impact.…Hi, I'm Alan Coppin, an Engineering Manager leading a distributed 14-person team across New Zealand and Australia. I accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and modernize technical foundations while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership. I blend frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, Remix) with a strong backend, observability, and DevOps discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. I champion async, distributed collaboration, pod structures, and weekly rhythms that improve throughput, quality, and customer impact.

Alan Coppin

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Hi, I'm Alan Coppin, an Engineering Manager leading a distributed 14-person team across New Zealand and Australia. I accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and modernize technical foundations while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership. I blend frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, Remix) with a strong backend, observability, and DevOps discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. I champion async, distributed collaboration, pod structures, and weekly rhythms that improve throughput, quality, and customer impact.…Hi, I'm Alan Coppin, an Engineering Manager leading a distributed 14-person team across New Zealand and Australia. I accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and modernize technical foundations while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership. I blend frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, Remix) with a strong backend, observability, and DevOps discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. I champion async, distributed collaboration, pod structures, and weekly rhythms that improve throughput, quality, and customer impact.

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Hi, I’m Alan Coppin, an Engineering Manager leading a distributed 14-person team across New Zealand and Australia. I accelerate delivery, strengthen engineering quality, and modernize technical foundations while balancing hands-on technical depth with people leadership.

I blend frontend expertise (React, TypeScript, Remix) with a strong backend, observability, and DevOps discipline to drive measurable business outcomes. I champion async, distributed collaboration, pod structures, and weekly rhythms that improve throughput, quality, and customer impact.

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Experience Level

Expert

Expert

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Expert

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English

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Work Experience

Head of Engineering at The Working Party

March 1, 2025 - Present

Led a distributed 14-person engineering team across New Zealand and Australia, introducing pod structures and weekly L10 rhythms to improve predictability and collaboration. Drove technical roadmap alignment with business outcomes; enabled faster delivery, higher quality, and greater accountability. Reduced deployment time from 2 hours to 5 minutes via automation and improved Git flow. Improved engineering throughput and alignment with delivery goals.

Senior Software Engineer at Education Perfect

January 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025

Delivered user-facing improvements with Product, Design, and QA; improved accessibility by 30% by integrating WCAG AA checks into CI; built micro-frontend observability foundations with New Relic; automated dashboard provisioning with Terraform; improved CI/CD workflows via parallelisation and GitHub Actions optimisation.

Senior Frontend Developer at Arc4JiPro

February 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023

Built major product features using React, GraphQL, and Remix; re-architected key areas for performance and long-term maintainability; developed Cloudflare Image CDN system to speed up imagery delivery; created optimistic‑UI page-builder features to improve editor experience.

Senior Frontend Developer at Kathmandu

January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022

Led PWA development using React, GraphQL and Apollo Client. Implemented bespoke caching strategies using Service Workers and Cloudflare rules. Automated deployment processes via Cloudflare Workers and GitHub Actions.

Senior Frontend Developer at Publica

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2021

Led frontend performance optimisation and WCAG adoption. Mentored developers and contributed to quoting and scoping work.

Webmaster at Ecobati

January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2017

Managed 25+ websites, built WordPress templates, and oversaw SEO and digital ads.