Alex Lynham
Founder CTO at Apex
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lynham is a founder-CTO and technical leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling engineering teams, running a technology consultancy and validator business, and guiding blockchain protocols (including an L1) to market. Based in Manchester, he blends functional programming and backend expertise with hands-on DevOps—contributing to CosmWasm and wasmd projects, implementing CW2981 royalties, upgrade handlers and deployment automation. He advises C-level execs on digital transformation and has led high-stakes incident response to cyber and social attacks while also conducting academic CBDC and programmable payments research. Comfortable across Python, Clojure, Ruby and cloud-native tooling, Alex has repeatedly turned early-stage proofs into production platforms and reduced onboarding friction through improved tooling and processes. An observer-turned-practitioner of decentralised systems and cypherpunk principles, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for monetary technology and incentive design.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2.1 in BA(Hons), Modern History with Economics, 2.1 in BA(Hons), Modern History with Economics at The University of ManchesterGodalming College
Github Skills (25)
cosmos-sdk10
docker10
bash10
rust-wasm10
junit-jupiter10
dockers10
cicd10
junit10
script10
go10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
blazor-webassembly10
webassembly10
rust10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CosmosContracts/juno
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Open Source Platform for Interoperable Smart Contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 releases, 132 reviews, 110 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily focused on upgrading the Cosmos SDK and related dependencies, indicating a role in maintaining and updating the core blockchain framework. They also added and refactored upgrade handlers, demonstrating expertise in managing the blockchain's state transitions. Furthermore, the user implemented and configured infrastructure components, including a Docker Compose file and unsafe CORS settings, which suggests DevOps responsibilities. This involved a balance of backend code maintenance and environment setup within the project.
smart-contractsblockchaincosmos-sdkstarportjuno
public-awesome/cw-nfts
Oct 2021 - Feb 2022
Examples and helpers to build NFT contracts on CosmWasm
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 23 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refining smart contract functionality within the CosmWasm environment. Their work included the initial development of royalty features adhering to the CW2981 standard, incorporating metadata extensions, and addressing clippy warnings to ensure code quality. Furthermore, the user added unit tests to validate the implemented functionalities.
cosmwasmnft
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