Alec Gard
Staff Software Engineer at Chainlink Labs
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlec Gard is a product-minded Staff Software Engineer based in the UK with 10 years of experience building reliable, customer-focused systems across startups and large enterprises. He progressed from graduate and intern roles to senior engineering and management at Amazon before joining Chainlink Labs, where he now drives technical direction and delivery for blockchain-native products. Alec blends hands-on engineering with product sensitivity, prioritizing solutions that demonstrably solve user problems rather than technical elegance for its own sake. His background spans full lifecycle delivery in high-throughput environments and a knack for translating product requirements into pragmatic engineering roadmaps. Quietly practical, he pairs a formal software engineering degree from Edinburgh Napier with a track record of moving teams from prototypes to production.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Honours Software Engineering, BEng Honours Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
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Github Skills (16)
golang10
monorepo10
javascript10
chainlink10
solidity10
oracle10
computation10
ethereum10
blockchain10
decentralized-identifiers8
verifiable-credentials8
sdk8
relay7
smart-contracts7
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
inbest/Chatbot_Prototype
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alecgard/knowledge-broker
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 18 days
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