Alex Gill
Lead Software Engineer at Neo4j
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Gill is a Lead Software Engineer and application architect based in London with 12 years of experience building reliable systems across UX, databases, and backend services. Currently leading engineering at Neo4j, he brings practical expertise in graph runtimes (notably working on Cypher runtime-related projects) and a strong advocacy for functional programming and high-quality testing practices. His background spans fast-moving startups and established products—from Depop and Quantemplate to Penna—where he balanced hands-on development with architectural leadership. An active contributor to testing tooling (improving AutoFixture’s xUnit integrations), he has a knack for reducing complexity in test setups and preventing data overfetch. He combines a BSc in Computer Science from the University of York with a curiosity for improving developer workflows and system correctness.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of York
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
xunit10
autofixture10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
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Github contributions (5)
AutoFixture/AutoFixture
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 29 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the AutoFixture.xUnit.net library. Their contributions include adding tests to verify specific functionalities, removing tests no longer applicable, and modifying the `CompositeDataAttribute` for improved data handling and error checking. The user also added a feature that prevents returning too much data.
autofixturedotnetmaintainabilityobject-graphtest-data
ruskindantra/AutoFixture.AutoEntityFramework
Jan 2014 - Jul 2018
An AutoFixture customization that lazy-loads navigation properties on Entity Framework objects
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 6 months
autofixtureentity-frameworklazyload
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