Alex Amies
CSO & Co-Founder at re:sustain
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Amies is a chartered engineering leader and co-founder with 12 years’ experience specialising in building automation, energy optimisation and scientific analysis of HVAC and BMS systems. As CSO of re:sustain and former director of his consultancy Proptimal, he has delivered optimisation programmes across hundreds of thousands of square metres for clients including Goldman Sachs, RBS, Santander and BT, and designed controls for flagship Apple stores while at Foster + Partners. He combines deep mechanical and building-services engineering credentials (MEng, MSc, CEng, FCIBSE, MIMechE) with hands-on project delivery from specification to commissioning. Alex also bridges into software and observability work—contributing full-stack OpenTelemetry/Stackdriver tutorials and load-testing tooling—bringing data-driven monitoring into building performance. Colleagues value his rare blend of rigorous scientific approach and practical commissioning experience, plus a quiet intellectual curiosity informed by interests in Buddhist studies and Chinese literature. Based in London, he focuses on turning complex physical systems into automatable, measurable outcomes for commercial real estate.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Institution Of Mechanical EngineersCEng, CEng at Engineering CouncilMIMechE, MIMechE at Institution of Mechanical EngineersFCIBSE, FCIBSE at Chartered Institution of Building Services EngineersAysgarth SchoolHarrow SchoolMarlborough CollegeMaster of Science (MSc), Building Services Engineering, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Building Services Engineering, Distinction at London South Bank UniversityMaster of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
opentelemetry10
nodejs10
back-end-development9
google-cloud-platform9
google-app-engine9
front-end-development9
backend9
web-development9
gcp8
google-compute-engine6
dart6
opencensus6
google-cloud-firestore6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/professional-services
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Common solutions and tools developed by Google Cloud's Professional Services team. This repository and its contents are not an officially supported Google product.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed code for a new tutorial on web instrumentation using OpenTelemetry and Stackdriver. They implemented a load test application using JavaScript and the OpenTelemetry Collector to send data to a Node.js backend. The contributions include frontend JavaScript code for load testing, and server-side code for receiving and processing the data. The user's work enhanced the project by adding a practical guide for web application monitoring.
gcpprofessionalgoogle-cloud-mlgoogledata-stream
GoogleCloudPlatform/opencensus-spanner-demo
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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