Alex Moffat
Principal Software Engineer at MineralAnswers.com
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Moffat is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building SaaS platforms and scalable Java/GWT applications, now based in Austin, Texas. He has a strong track record of technical leadership across startups and scale-ups, including recent principal engineering roles at project44 and Convey and an ongoing leadership position at MineralAnswers.com. Alex combines hands-on architecture and delivery skills with editorial insight—he served as technical editor for "Essential App Engine"—which reflects a talent for clarifying complex systems. His background spans legacy and cloud-native environments, from long tenure at Lombardi to modern logistics and data platforms, making him adept at modernizing codebases without losing institutional knowledge. Trained in physics at the University of Oxford, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to engineering tradeoffs and product decisions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors teams while driving clear, maintainable technical direction.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Physics, MA, Physics at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
141reputation
12kreached
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Github Skills (13)
date-parsing8
gwt6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
react5
boilerplate5
cassandra4
kafka-connect2
kibana2
hadoop2
swift1
ios1
cocoapods1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
getconvey/archived-interview-boilerplates
May 2019 - Jul 2022
small boilerplate apps for candidates to use while interviewing at Convey
Contributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 2 months
reactboilerplateinterviewingconveycandidates
AlexMoffat/timecalc
Dec 2019 - May 2020
A scratch pad for time and date parsing and calculations. For example how far apart are the date from a Kibana log message and the timesamp of a Cassandra column?
Contributions:11 releases, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
cassandradate-parsingkibana
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