Alex Gisby
Principal Developer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gisby is a Principal Developer based in Sydney with 16 years of experience designing and delivering high-scale web applications and AWS infrastructure. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Kotlin, TypeScript, React, Node, Postgres, Dynamo) with technical leadership—having led teams of 10–14 through product launches, multi-region backend migrations, and complex core system designs. His career spans consumer media (BBC iPlayer Radio), high-throughput media services and platform work at Atlassian, and earlier e-commerce and internationalised sites, showing a strong track record of operational excellence and incident management. Comfortable spec’ing language-level solutions (ANTLR) and custom querying/permissions systems, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable architectures. Beyond shipping features, he’s known for building repeatable control surfaces, monitoring practices and developer tooling that keep systems resilient under millions of daily requests.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital and Photographic Imaging, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Digital and Photographic Imaging at University of Westminster
Github Skills (29)
calendars9
imgur9
templating8
python8
creator6
bare6
authentication6
no-database5
php5
reader5
webservice4
php-framework3
transport3
sqlite2
mysql2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexgisby/imgur-album-downloader
Apr 2012 - Apr 2016
Python script/class to download an entire Imgur album in one go into a folder of your choice.
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years
imgur-albumimgurpythonpython-script
solution10/calendar
Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
templatingeventscalendarscalendar
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