Alex Moon
Chief Technology Officer at PlaceChangers Ltd.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Moon is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience building and scaling service-oriented software teams and architectures. He combines hands-on expertise in information architecture, large-scale database design, and automation with a Scrum-driven approach to consistently deliver across the software lifecycle. Alex has a track record of implementing open-source-based, deployable stacks and contributes to notable projects like django-oscar, improving backend e-commerce logic and extensibility. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he blends technical depth with user-story focused product thinking and an expressed commitment to responsible, sustainable tech. An uncommon strength is his philosophical training, which informs a values-led approach to engineering decisions and team leadership.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BIT Philosophy Information Systems, BA/BIT Philosophy Information Systems at Australian National UniversityBA Philosophy English, BA Philosophy English at Monash University
French, German
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Github Skills (8)
django-oscar10
back-end-development10
python10
ecommerce10
django10
forms9
user-authentication8
authentication8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
django-oscar/django-oscar
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the back-end logic of the django-oscar e-commerce platform, focusing on bug fixes and improvements. They addressed issues related to data persistence by modifying the `delete()` function within the basket app. The user also worked on user form overrides in the dashboard partner views, enhancing customizability. Furthermore, the user made changes to the meta fields of the user forms and refactored some code.
pythondjango-oscarecommercecommercedjango
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