Alex Gout
Staff Data Engineer
Selfkant, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gout is a Staff Data Engineer with seven years of focused experience scaling event-driven and backend systems at Shopify, after progressing from Senior Software Engineer to staff-level technical leadership. He brings a decade-plus history of architecting robust, production-grade platforms across fintech and SaaS—designing a greenfield FinTech stack at Link Investment Management and working on equity-management and SSO systems at Solium. Comfortable across JVM ecosystems (Spring) and distributed data platforms, Alex blends deep engineering craftsmanship with pragmatic system design to drive reliability at Shopify scale. Based in Selfkant, Germany, he pairs a scientific background in organic chemistry with continuous learning via Coursera, an uncommon mix that informs his methodical, data-minded approach to complex problems.
7 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraOrganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry at Radboud University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (21)
search-engine10
opensearch10
shopify-api10
admin10
python10
shopify10
polaris10
big-data10
apache10
hotel-booking10
java10
scala10
restful10
rest10
sql10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlexAxeman/elasticsearch
Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
AlexAxeman/nxt-pi
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 days
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