Alex Drinkwater
Lead Software Engineer at Ansys
Greater Nantes Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolAlex Drinkwater is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native simulation and additive manufacturing tools, currently shaping web and 3D visualization solutions at Ansys from the Greater Nantes area. He is a full-stack engineer comfortable across Python, .NET Core, Go, Node.js and modern front-ends (Angular, Three.js, VTK), and routinely delivers containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated applications. Alex’s background spans desktop (Electron/.NET Framework) to web services and infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Helm), enabling tight integration between simulation engines and user-facing apps. He brings a mechatronics engineering foundation (First Class Honours) and early hardware/robotics experience that informs pragmatic, system-level thinking. Known for rapidly adopting new stacks, he moved from startups through acquisition into enterprise at Ansys while keeping a hands-on engineering leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Mechatronics, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Hons., Mechatronics, First Class Honours at University of CanterburyHigh School, High School at Saint Kentigern College
English
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Github Skills (143)
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generator10
ecosystem9
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golang9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
3DSIM/workflow-goclient
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Go client for communicating with the workflow API
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
golangapigo-clientgocgo
3DSIM/auth0
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
Library written in Go for interacting with auth0
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
golangauth0authenticationjwt
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