Alex Mclarty
Lead Software Engineer at Kraken
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mclarty is a Lead Software Engineer based in Newcastle upon Tyne with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems and leading distributed teams across Europe and North America. He has progressed from QA and embedded roles into senior engineering and technical leadership, most recently focusing on EV charging integrations, Python/Django backends, WebSockets and OCPP at ev.energy before moving into leadership positions at Kraken. Alex combines deep practical knowledge of CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), message systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and full-stack work with a track record of mentoring and line management. Comfortable shipping production-grade systems and tackling support triage, he brings a pragmatic, test-first mindset informed by early embedded and QA foundations. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex protocols and IoT integrations into maintainable services while coordinating remote, cross-continental teams.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class, Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class at Northumbria UniversityPhilosophy, Theology and Religious Studies BA, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Unfinished, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies BA, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, Unfinished at University of Leeds
Github Skills (58)
python10
amqp10
redis10
gql10
graph10
task-manager10
task-scheduler10
task-queue10
distributed-lock10
queue10
rds9
goodies9
terraform9
distributed-systems9
aws9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexmclarty/selenium_example
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
alexmclarty/alexmclarty.github.io
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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