Alex Neves
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Neves is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on building highly available, scalable cloud services for games and platform infrastructure. Currently at Microsoft on the Xbox Live team, he previously architected and operated core online services for Sea of Thieves at Rare, delivering matchmaking, stats, and commerce systems serving millions of users. He champions strong engineering practices—TDD, CI, and automation—and combines .NET/Azure backend expertise with experience integrating services into Unreal Engine. Known for operational ownership, he has built automation pipelines and monitoring tools that keep live games resilient under large concurrent loads. Based in Seattle with a first-class Computer Science degree from the University of Nottingham, he brings a pragmatic, production-first mindset to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class Honours at University of NottinghamHigh School, 12 GCSEs including Maths and English, A-B, High School, 12 GCSEs including Maths and English, A-B at Longdean School
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Github Skills (24)
json9
docker9
documentation8
react8
android8
ios8
react-native8
cross-platform7
deserialization6
mobile6
sql6
asp-net-mvc6
foreach6
draw6
dll6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexjneves/Neuromon
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 98 pushes in 5 months
alexjneves/BrickBreaker
Sep 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 3 months
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