Alex Hewson
Head Of Infrastructure at FINTRAC LTD
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlex Hewson is a pragmatic infrastructure leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms and the teams that run them, now leading infrastructure at FINTRAC in London. He has a track record of turning legacy stacks into autoscaled, observable systems—delivering multi‑cloud migrations, Terraform-driven reproducible infrastructure, and large cost savings using spot instances and autoscaling. His background spans advising startups and enterprises (from legaltech and data science platforms to high-throughput print processing at HP), often improving developer experience as much as operational resilience. Notably, he wrote a robust Terraform provider in Go to automate Google’s Looker service, translating complex APIs into repeatable infrastructure-as-code. Colleagues know him for combining deep technical craft with a pragmatic focus on measurable business outcomes and SOC2-ready processes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
111reputation
8kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (167)
anyconnect10
openconnect10
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carddav10
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ansible10
openvpn10
url-parser10
tor10
domain-name10
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openssh10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alexmbird/bulklift
May 2019 - Aug 2022
Simple, bulk transcoding utility for large collections of media
Contributions:1 review, 102 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 4 months
transcoding
alexmbird/luckyhorse
Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
A failed experiment in bitcoin trading
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
bitcointrading
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