Alex Norton
Senior Software Engineer at Sony Music Entertainment
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Norton is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications, favouring JavaScript and React. He currently contributes to Sony Music/The Orchard’s distributed platform, integrating complex third-party APIs using TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, Redux, Python and AWS (Fargate, Lambda). A former BBC engineer across News Labs and Audience Engagement, he brings strong product-focused engineering experience in media and interactive content. He has a particular interest in data visualisation and interactive media, combining front-end craft with cloud-native deployment and containerisation. Alex holds a First Class BSc in Computer Science Innovation from Lancaster University and is comfortable operating across teams to turn complex data and integration challenges into polished user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The Cherwell School AcademyBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science Innovation, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science Innovation, First Class Honours at Lancaster University
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Github Skills (63)
draft-js10
mapbox-gl9
in-progress9
mapbox-gl-js9
music9
audio-player9
jellyfin8
angularjs8
subsonic8
webgl7
speech7
padding7
textmate7
fyne7
audio7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexnorton/transcript-model
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 year 10 months
transcriptsjavascriptjson-schemaspeechjson
alexnorton/oyster-history
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
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