Alex Meyer-gleaves
R&D, VP Architecture And Technology at AVEVA
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Meyer-Gleaves is a seasoned R&D and architecture executive with 16 years of experience leading software engineering and technology strategy across industrial and enterprise software companies. Currently VP Architecture and Technology at AVEVA after a leadership stint as VP and Lead Software Architect at AECOM, he has a strong history of evolving complex product portfolios and modernizing legacy .NET ecosystems. A pragmatic hands-on architect, Alex has contributed to notable open-source .NET projects such as Autofac—adding OWIN/Web API integration and modernizing examples—demonstrating both deep platform knowledge and practical integration skills. Based in Greater Brisbane, he pairs enterprise-scale thinking with developer empathy, often bridging product, engineering and R&D to deliver maintainable systems. An understated strength is his focus on migration and modernization patterns that reduce technical debt while enabling cloud and service-oriented transformations.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Brisbane State High School
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autofac
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dependency-injection
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Github Skills (19)
nuget10
aspnet-web-api10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
webapi10
autofac10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dependency-injection10
owin9
asp-net-mvc9
web-framework9
msbuild8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
autofac/Autofac
Apr 2010 - Oct 2020
An addictive .NET IoC container
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 761 commits, 34 PRs in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Autofac.Integration.Mvc project, extending it with support for OWIN-based Web API services. They added a class for injecting properties, providing flexible control over dependency injection. This includes providing the ability to specify the scope as well as the addition of the new API calls. Furthermore, the user updated code and refactored old calls and parameters.
dotnetioc-containerautofacc-sharpnetcore
autofac/Examples
Jan 2014 - Sep 2021
Example projects that consume and demonstrate Autofac IoC functionality and integration
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 22 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on upgrading and modernizing the Autofac example projects, including the upgrade of ASP.NET packages to the latest versions, which involved modifying project files to reflect new dependencies. They also worked on migrating NuGet package restore methods. Additionally, the user created an example console application to demonstrate OWIN integration, highlighting their work with .NET-related technologies. They upgraded packages like Autofac to newer versions.
autofac
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