Alex Hilson
Senior Cloud Engineer at Treefera
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Hilson is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading production-ready cloud platforms for data-intensive domains, currently focusing on nature-based asset data at a Series A startup. He has driven AWS-based meteorological and geospatial data systems at the Met Office that ingest terabytes daily and helped evolve petabyte-scale analysis tooling into the community Pangeo ecosystem. Alex combines hands-on DevOps, IaC, and distributed compute expertise (Dask, Kubernetes, Lambda, Kafka) with technical leadership—founding and scaling an SRE team and improving release engineering across heterogeneous CI/CD landscapes. He’s comfortable moving between research prototyping for weather and climate scientists and delivering robust, observable services in production. Currently pursuing an MSc in Data Science, he brings a pragmatic data-first perspective and a track record of turning scientific workflows into scalable, user-facing APIs and platforms. A detail that surprises collaborators: he pairs deep platform engineering skills with research-minded product thinking, often surfacing novel ways to expose complex scientific data for everyday use.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (66)
meteorology9
netcdf9
datapoint9
data-api9
grib9
pandas8
noaa8
oceanography8
earth-science8
python8
datasets8
weather-data8
earth8
aws8
atmosphere8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sensewithdata/sensewithdata.github.io
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
informatics-lab/microsoft-hack
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
labhack-weekmicrosoft
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