Alex Macrae
Staff Software Engineer at Blue Yonder
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Macrae is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on mobile development experience, specialising in Android and delivering consumer-facing apps for major retailers, fintech and health clients. He combines deep platform expertise — including Compose, Dagger/Hilt, Retrofit and Google Play services — with strong product thinking and rapid execution on tight timelines. Alex has shipped high-profile retail apps and built the backend services that power them, giving him end-to-end insight from data feeds to delightful UX. Now at Blue Yonder after a long tenure at Waracle, he pairs technical leadership with pragmatic project and test management to drive ambitious mobile experiences. Outside of work he has a background in competitive team leadership from university sports, reflecting his collaborative and user-focused approach.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Epsom and Ewell High SchoolHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
java, python, objective c, php
Github Skills (57)
python10
binding10
mpandroidchart9
json-schema9
json9
panning9
java9
kotlin9
mqtt9
graph9
maven-plugin9
jackson9
android9
automation9
bubble9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MungoRae/home-assistant
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
MungoRae/BackgroundSiteLoader
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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