Alex Garland
Engineering Lead - Stream Processing at Wise
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Garland is an engineering lead specializing in stream processing and data platforms, with 12 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale streaming and batch systems across companies like Shopify, Expedia Group and Wise. He combines deep data engineering knowledge—ETL, warehousing, Hadoop ecosystem, Airflow and cloud services (AWS/GCP)—with hands-on software engineering in Scala, Python and Kotlin to build production-grade ingestion, data quality and real-time pipelines. At Shopify he helped architect a highly scalable CDC-driven streaming ingestion system using Apache Beam/Dataflow, and at Expedia he led data quality and anomaly detection work across stream and batch. Alex balances technical leadership and coding, shaping architecture, reviewing designs and shipping critical components while mentoring distributed teams. Based in Stony Stratford, he brings a practical tool-agnostic approach: choosing the right technology to solve business problems and boost productivity. His background in philosophy hints at a thoughtful, analytical approach to system design and trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (24)
unit-test8
junit8
testing7
stash6
atlassian6
test-framework6
hive5
java5
api-client5
api4
python3
dotty3
rest3
generic-programming3
rest-api3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexdgarland/project-euler-scala
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:78 pushes, 6 branches, 2 comments in 4 years 2 months
alexdgarland/HelloWorldMVC
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Toy project to play with Spring MVC
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 6 months
spring-boottoyspring-mvcspringjava
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