Alex Blease
Lead AI Engineer at Islington Council
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Blease is a Lead AI Engineer based in England with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and production-ready services. He has deep hands-on experience from Pivotal and VMware, contributing to Cloud Foundry projects like RabbitMQ for PCF and the BOSH GCP CPI while leading migrations and technical-debt initiatives. Alex combines platform engineering chops with customer-facing advocacy—running knowledge transfers and international conference demos that translate engineering work into tangible outcomes. Now leading AI engineering at Islington Council, he blends enterprise messaging, cloud migration experience, and platform best practices to operationalise advanced systems for public-sector needs. A former biomedical sciences student who started his career in IT management and education support, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary perspective to building reliable, observable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical Sciences, Bachelor's Degree, Biomedical Sciences at University of SouthamptonMonmouth School
node.js, javascript, ruby
Github Skills (109)
controller10
sap-cap10
ruby10
cf-cli10
streaming10
cloud-foundry10
kubernetes-operator10
rabbitmq10
cli10
foundry10
service-broker10
rabbitmq-cluster10
bosh10
rabbitmq-client10
pcf10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ablease/zinn
Dec 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 7 months
ablease/Lightbox
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 151 pushes, 7 branches in 27 days
reactmdtreact-nativereduxlightbox
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