Summary
Alex Harding is a Senior Manager leading Developer Experience at Thermo Fisher Scientific with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and data-focused tooling. He combines hands-on development—spanning PHP, JavaScript, Laravel and Vue—with program leadership in data engineering, visualization, and developer enablement across research and enterprise settings. Based in Chapel Hill, he teaches information science as an adjunct at UNC while previously directing data engineering and developer programs at RTI International, showing a blend of academic, research, and industry perspectives. Alex focuses on pragmatic solutions for data collection, management, retrieval and visualization, and is noted for translating complex research needs into reusable internal tools and client-facing systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Humanities, AA, Humanities at Nassau Community College
BA, English, BA, English at SUNY New Paltz
University of Maryland
MSIS, Information Science, MSIS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill