Alex Metcalfe is a Principal Android Engineer based in Mountain View with 12 years of experience building mobile-first products and leading cross-functional teams. He combines deep Android and Java expertise with a broad backend and database background (Spring, JEE, Oracle, Cassandra) and hands-on experience in Xamarin and iOS, enabling pragmatic decisions across native and cross-platform stacks. At Suncorp he led mobile strategy and distributed teams, and at Atlassian he now focuses on delivering scalable Android experiences at product scale. Skilled in Agile, Lean, OO design and CI, he blends user-experience sensibility with engineering rigor to ship reliable, maintainable apps. Notably comfortable navigating both legacy enterprise Java ecosystems and modern mobile toolchains, he often bridges product, backend services, and mobile platform concerns.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BIT Information Technology, BIT Information Technology at Wellington Institute of Technology
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Alex Metcalfe - Principal Android Engineer at Atlassian