Summary
Alex Diwa is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with seven years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, currently advancing product development at Eucalyptus. His progression from junior full-stack to senior engineer within the same company highlights strong ownership, rapid technical growth, and an ability to deliver across front-end and back-end domains. Alex blends a rigorous scientific background—Bachelor’s with First Class Honours and a University Medal, a Master’s in Chemistry, and time as a DPhil candidate at Oxford—with practical software training from Coder Academy, which gives him a rare mix of analytical depth and pragmatic engineering. He has focused recent years on scaling product features and mentoring colleagues while leveraging his lab-trained problem-solving to tackle complex system design and reliability challenges. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic thinker who turns research-style curiosity into well-tested, production-ready code.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Medicine), Structural Biology, dropped out, Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Medicine), Structural Biology, dropped out at University of Oxford
Diploma of Information Technology, Full-stack Software Development, Diploma of Information Technology, Full-stack Software Development at Coder Academy
The University of Sydney