Alan Carson is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudsmith. A software engineer by trade, he began his career building websites for the BBC before the dot-com bubble burst. Alan has worked on Wall Street, in the sleepy Cotswold countryside, the swamps of Louisiana, and the big smoke of Belfast. A pragmatic entrepreneur with a relentless ambition to build a world-class product-led technology company in Northern Ireland and IPO it. Alan lives with his wife, two dogs, and a mischievous cat, on a windy drumlin in County Down with bad internet.