Alex Brown
Principal Engineer at WPP
Surrey Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Brown is a Principal Engineer and platform architect with 15 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native .NET systems and backend microservices for major enterprises and digital platforms. He has led technical teams at WPP, Publicis Groupe and NewDay, and has a strong track record delivering payment APIs, customer profile systems and resilient microservices on Azure and Kubernetes. Practical and detail-oriented, Alex combines architecture-level thinking with ongoing coding—evidenced by open-source maintenance work on the long-running N2 CMS where he focused on code hygiene and backend stability. Based in Surrey Heath, he thrives in contract and lead roles that require fast ramp-up and pragmatic re-platforming. Colleagues rely on him for clean, maintainable solutions that bridge legacy integrations and modern cloud deployments.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Frogmore Community CollegeFarnborough 6th Form
English, profane
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Github Skills (31)
mongoose10
maintenance10
wordpress10
asp-net-core10
netframework10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
code-cleanup10
nodejs10
csharp10
mongodb10
cms9
javascript9
json9
jquery9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
n2cms/n2cms
May 2011 - Jan 2013
N2 CMS, an open source CMS for ASP.NET
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily involve removing and sorting using statements, indicating code cleanup and maintenance tasks. The changes span multiple files, including project files and various C# source code files related to N2 CMS. The commits touch upon aspects like configuration, engine, details, and web components, suggesting involvement in the backend logic of the CMS. These modifications contribute to code organization and maintainability within the N2 CMS project.
cmsaspasp-netasp-net-core
SlugHub/SlugHub.net
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 61 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
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