Alex Foxleigh
Technical Lead Engineer at SilverRail
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Foxleigh is a Technical Lead Engineer and front-end architect with nearly three decades of experience designing resilient web platforms and running design systems at scale. Currently leading 10+ engineers at SilverRail, he sets technical direction, improves developer experience, and champions sustainable delivery and inclusive team culture. He has a strong track record building accessible React component libraries and Storybook-driven systems for clients including the Royal Navy, DEFRA, NHS and Unilever, and founded the Royal Navy Design System. Alex also translates hands-on engineering into engaging public communication through Foxy’s Lab, a YouTube channel that demystifies smart homes, homelabs and automation — winning VidIQ’s 2025 Creator of the Year shortly after launch. Known for pragmatic architecture and operational tooling (eg. The Wellspring and Greenhouse), he combines deep front-end craft with a knack for making complex systems maintainable and observable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
South Holderness Technology CollegeBA(Hons) Web Design, BA(Hons) Web Design at University of Lincoln
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
component-library10
monorepo10
design-tokens10
fonts10
react10
rendering9
todoist9
rest9
api9
storybook9
node-red9
home-assistant9
rest-api9
jekyll9
angularjs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
foxleighsquared/f-f-website
Mar 2019 - Aug 2024
The website for Foxleigh & Foxleigh
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 5 months
ministryofjustice/oocp-compare
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 137 pushes in 2 months
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