Adria MTG
ActiveA live AI-powered Magic: The Gathering product for coach-guided drafts, Commander deck building, and Standard metagame analysis.
Senior software engineer
Reliable systems, AI-assisted engineering, and independent products.
I'm Alan Bishop, a senior software engineer with 15+ years in backend and platform engineering. My work spans high-reliability financial systems at Coinbase and Affirm, current AI-assisted engineering work at Effodio, and independent products and developer tools through Coding for Cats.
Projects
Current project
Experience
Systems work with real stakes
AI-assisted engineering systems
Building agentic workflows, internal developer tools, repository guidance, and automations for testing, debugging, pull requests, and git workflows.
Payments and platform reliability
Built backend systems for virtual cards, issuer integrations, ledger and reporting workflows, and critical checkout paths using Kotlin, Python, MySQL, and AWS.
Institutional financial infrastructure
Built API and backend systems for institutional brokerage, margin, and lending products using Golang, Postgres, Kafka, and AWS in a regulated high-scale environment.
Public Work
Public tools and open source
claude-overseer
An open source Claude Code skill focused on review quality, bug finding, coverage gaps, and surfacing the next useful improvements in a codebase.
View repoAha! Scrum Master Tools
A lightweight tool built to work around slow planning workflows and make day-to-day execution less frustrating.
View repoGitHub profile
Additional repos, experiments, and work-in-progress tools live on GitHub.
View profileAbout
Independent work with a practical mission
Coding for Cats is my independent engineering company. It is where I build products, developer tools, and selected high-trust collaborations outside my primary role. The work stays grounded in the same things that have shaped my career: reliable systems, clear technical judgment, and useful software.
Based in Vancouver, Washington.
Available for selected engineering collaborations and consulting work.
Focused on backend systems, developer tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.
25% of profits go to local humane societies and other animal causes.
Contact
Work with Alan
For a senior engineering role, product collaboration, or a focused consulting engagement, email is the best place to start.