Alex Macpherson
Vice President at Blackstone
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Macpherson is a full-stack software engineer and frontend technical lead with nine years of experience delivering cloud-native, enterprise-grade solutions for major corporates, law firms and retailers. Now a Vice President at Blackstone, he combines hands-on React/TypeScript and GraphQL expertise with a strong track record in architecting microservice frontends, CI/CD and AKS-deployed systems. At iManage he led the frontend for a global enterprise search product, created a reusable React component library adopted across the ecosystem, and championed testing and code quality to reduce tech debt and accelerate delivery. Equally comfortable mentoring engineers and engaging stakeholders, he translates deep product/domain knowledge into pragmatic, accessible UX decisions. Known for quickly mastering unfamiliar technologies, he enjoys the creative challenge of turning complex requirements into performant, internationalised solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc Computer Science at University of WarwickSecondary School & College, Secondary School & College at Seaford College
English, French
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
react-native10
testing10
typescript10
vite10
web-components10
webpack10
vue10
html10
svelte10
react10
documentation10
angular10
storybook9
ui-components9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexjamesmacpherson/alexjamesmacpherson.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
alexjamesmacpherson/pacman
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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