Alex Crooks
Head Of Applications Engineering
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Crooks is a pragmatic engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack products and a 20-year background in taking projects from concept to production. Currently Head of Applications Engineering at Hectare, he previously served as the first dev hire and Lead Engineer at the Soil Association, where he architected infrastructure, APIs, web and mobile apps for the Exchange using modern stacks like Nuxt 3, Capacitor and Cloudflare. He excels at turning loose ideas into production-ready platforms, blending strategic ownership with day-to-day engineering and cross-platform delivery. Based in England, Alex pairs strong front-end instincts with infrastructure and mobile expertise, and is known for shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge product needs and developer ergonomics.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc (Hons) Internet Technology, 2:1 BSc (Hons) Internet Technology at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (200)
javascript-client10
testing10
serverless10
fastify10
api10
html5-video10
json10
full-stack10
video-player10
selector10
nodejs10
utilities10
css10
html5-audio10
signature10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
alexcroox/jira-timer-menubar
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
macOS and Linux menubar app for JIRA time logging. Built with React and Electron
Contributions:43 releases, 133 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
reactbuilt-with-reactelectronmenubar-apptime-logging
alexcroox/R3
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 165 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
armareplayaction-replay
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