Alex Jackson
Software Engineer at Plex, Inc.
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Jackson is a versatile software engineer with 14 years’ experience building production macOS and iOS apps as well as scientific tooling in Julia and Python. He has shipped consumer and enterprise features at companies like Plex and BrightHR, led iOS teams, and created commercial-quality independent apps that emphasize testability, performance and clean architecture. Alex also builds for scale outside traditional apps: he founded Geography AS Notes, a responsive educational website with ~100K monthly users used in UK and Canadian schools. His background in geophysics informs technical work such as a Julia genetic algorithm for inverting magnetotelluric data and several geophysical data libraries. Notable for pragmatically blending research-grade numerical code with polished user-facing products, he favors clear separation of concerns and measurable performance improvements.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of AlbertaHigh School, High School at Calday Grange Grammar School Sixth FormMGeophys, BSc, MGeophys, BSc at University of Leeds
Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,758reputation
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Github Skills (26)
dashing10
objective-c10
ios10
geography10
swift10
macos10
hugo-theme9
cocoa9
xcode9
cocoapods9
jekyll9
carthage9
matlab8
hugo8
coredata6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexjohnj/SACFiles.jl
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:104 commits, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
alexjohnj/genetic-mt1d
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:88 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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