Alex Handley
Data Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Handley is a data engineer with 13 years of experience building high-scale data platforms, launching products, and scaling teams across startups and fast-moving companies. He combines hands-on pipeline engineering—event-driven ETL, Airflow/Luigi, Redshift/BigQuery and cloud provisioning—with a track record of shipping ML models into production and improving pipeline reliability from the ground up. As a former co-founder of a consultancy, he thrives on quickly delivering customer value, shaping development processes, and embedding test-driven practices that reduce failures and speed delivery. He’s led teams through GDPR-driven transformations and improved ETL success rates dramatically, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on both resilience and observability. A servant leader and coach, he prioritizes clarity, removing friction, and growing engineers in high-trust environments. Based in Vancouver, he’s especially excited about building modern data platforms that scale with the business while keeping close to product and data teams.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at University of GreenwichCCNA Comptia Security+ Cisco Instructor Oracle Database Designer CCNA Comptia Security+ Cisco Instructor Oracle Database Designer, CCNA Comptia Security+ Cisco Instructor Oracle Database Designer CCNA Comptia Security+ Cisco Instructor Oracle Database Designer at The Leigh Technology Academy
Github Skills (87)
mvc10
ruby10
google-sheets-api-v410
google-sheets10
activerecord10
cart10
ruby-on-rails10
google-sheets-api10
gspread10
spreadsheet10
currency10
html10
spree10
rails10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alex-handley/resume-template
Nov 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:34 pushes in 5 years 8 months
resume-templatejekylljekyll-themetophatbriefcase
alex-handley/schoolmaster
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year
best-practicelintersecurity-analysisrailssecurity
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