Alex Hek
Fractional CTO Software & AI Consultant at What the Hek Consulting
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Hek is a Fractional CTO and Software & AI Consultant with five years of professional engineering experience who blends a creative background as a former professional musician (10M+ Spotify streams) with deep full‑stack and AI expertise. He ships frontend apps in TypeScript, React, and Vue, builds backends in C#/.NET and Node, and designs resilient SQL/NoSQL data layers while operating services on Azure. Alex has led teams through platform migrations (Vue 2→3), delivered high‑impact AI features and client contracts using OpenAI/Anthropic/Google models, and driven ISO 27001–aligned practices. Comfortable mentoring engineers and owning product delivery, he also negotiates client relationships and commercialises AI solutions as a consultant. Notably, his career pivot from music to software informs a user‑centric approach to product design and storytelling through data.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music - BMus, Music Performance and Composition, First-Class Honours, Bachelor of Music - BMus, Music Performance and Composition, First-Class Honours at University of SunderlandComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Zero To Mastery Academy
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Github Skills (16)
css9
react8
edtech7
html7
open-source7
javascript7
developer-tools5
zero-configuration5
build-tools4
decorators4
annotations4
create-react-app4
station3
typescript3
nodejs3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Hekmundo/iss-tracker
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Web app tracking and displaying the current position of the ISS (International Space Station)
Contributions:62 commits, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 4 months
positionreactissinternational-space-stationspace-station
Hekmundo/crown-clothing
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:14 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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