Alex Cartwright
Senior DevOps Engineer at NearForm
Shrewsbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlex Cartwright is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Shrewsbury with 16 years building and securing cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. Currently at NearForm and running OpenZula Limited, he blends hands-on infrastructure automation with product-minded leadership shaped by roles from full-stack development to lead developer at Universal Music Group. He has deep experience modernizing legacy PHP and Python stacks into cloud-native services and a history of contributing stability fixes and tests to the Kohana core, showing attention to reliability at the framework level. Alex is comfortable operating across the stack—CI/CD, observability, and secure platform design—and often pairs engineering craft with commercial insight from his director role. Notably, his career path reflects a practical hacker-to-leader progression: frequent short-term contracts early on that broadened his language and domain expertise, now applied to long-term platform stewardship.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
web-framework10
debug10
php10
url-validation9
text-processing9
url-parsing9
url-encoding9
url-parser9
url-scheme9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kohana/core
Apr 2011 - Jul 2012
Core system classes from Kohana
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on maintaining and improving the Kohana core system. They fixed bugs, including issues with the syslog driver, CLI options, and URL query functionality. Contributions also included adding tests to improve the reliability of the Text::auto_link() function, and fixing issues related to auto-linking URLs with paths. The work primarily involved modifying core system classes and writing tests.
kohana
AlexC/kohana-recaptcha
Apr 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 2 years 5 months
googlekohanarecaptcha
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