Alvin Terrible

Engineering Lead | AI Subject Matter Expert

Engineering Leadership | TypeScript & React | AI Tooling | .NET | Cloud

Engineering Lead. Architect.
AI Subject Matter Expert.

18 years building production software across Telecommunications, Banking, Insurance and Physical Security. Engineering Lead at Gallagher Security, where I lead frontend delivery on Command Centre Web and act as the team's AI Subject Matter Expert, coaching engineers on AI-assisted development. Comfortable leading a team, contributing individually, or doing both.

Engineering LeadershipTypeScript & ReactAI Tooling & Agentic EngineeringC# / .NETNode.js & Edge RuntimesAzure & Cloudflare

Selected Highlights

  • Engineering Lead at Gallagher Security on Command Centre Web, the browser client for an enterprise physical access control platform used by governments, airports, hospitals and critical infrastructure.
  • Team AI Subject Matter Expert: set the standards, guardrails and review practice for AI-assisted engineering, and coach engineers on using it without losing code quality.
  • Designed and maintain an agentic engineering toolkit of slash commands, skills, lifecycle hooks and automation scripts covering spec-driven development, pull request review, CI preflight and release documentation, governed by its own architecture decision records.
  • Built a local-first retrieval-augmented memory system (vector database, local embeddings, Model Context Protocol server) that grounds AI assistants in real project and personal context.