Alex Couper
Software Engineering Consultant at Codalens.com
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
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Top SchoolAlex Couper is a seasoned software engineering consultant and former CTO with 13 years’ experience building scalable web platforms and APIs, now based in Reykjavik. He brings deep Python backend expertise (7+ years professionally) combined with hands-on platform leadership—designing migration to SaaS, introducing object storage and event-driven feeds, and leading teams of 20. Alex has steered platform development and delivery at companies like Jiko and WOW air, co-founded a greenfield CI/CD/Kubernetes project, and contributes to open-source projects such as Liberapay where he added backend tests and API tooling. A certified SCRUM master, he blends disciplined agile practices with pragmatic engineering to ship reliable, testable systems. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stabilizing and scaling legacy systems into modern cloud-native architectures.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of Manchester
icelandic (basic)
Stackoverflow
920reputation
97kreached
12answers
3questions
Github Skills (16)
postgresql10
python10
testing10
web-content9
webpages9
django9
donation8
monetary8
unit-testing6
initialization6
nose6
attribute6
sqlite6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
liberapay/liberapay.com
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
Source code of the recurrent donations platform Liberapay
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the backend functionality of the Liberapay platform. Their work involved creating a testing client with POST capabilities, which likely aids in automated testing of API endpoints. The user also added a test for a specific API endpoint, `tip.json`, and modified the backend code, specifically in the `Participant` model. These changes indicate the user's focus on implementing and testing backend logic related to tip management.
crowdfundingmoneypythonrecurrent
alexcouper/captainhook
Apr 2014 - Nov 2016
Git hook scripts
Contributions:153 commits, 20 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 7 months
reactgit-hooksgit-hookmercurialpre-commit
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