Alistair McLean

Senior Staff Field Engineer ⚛️

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Scotsman, Husband, Father, New Yorker, Amazon Project Kuiper Principal BD interested in Space, AI and Enterprise Connectivity. Opinions are my own.

Experience

  • Senior Staff Field Engineer at IonQ
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Principal Technologist, Global Business Development at Amazon Leo
    Jan 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Driving strategic initiatives using Project Kuiper's low Earth orbit satellite network.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (8 yrs 8 mos)
    • Principal Technical BD - Aerospace & Satellite
      Jun 2024 - Jan 2025 · 8 mos

      Own the most complex and largest business opportunities end-to-end that have broad customer, business, or cross-organizational impact.

    • Principal Architect - Satellite Solutions
      Oct 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Principal Solutions Architect
      Mar 2019 - Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Morgan Stanley (6 yrs 2 mos)
    • Vice President Solutions Architect
      Jan 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Vice President software engineer and solutions architect working in Regulatory Reporting across the OTC Derivatives space.

    • Associate Software Engineer
      May 2010 - Jan 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Software Engineer developing derivative trade confirmation and reporting applications across a number of key asset classes.

  • Systems Integration Consultant at Trace Financial
    Nov 2006 - May 2010 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Systems Integration Consultant working in the finance industry in London and Europe.