Alex Peattie
Director Of Engineering at Front
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolAlex Peattie is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15 years’ experience building data-intensive SaaS products and scaling engineering teams. Currently Director of Engineering at Front in Paris, he oversees EMEA teams focused on Admin and Search for a $1.7B B2B communications platform. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of Peg, a Ruby on Rails/React platform with Python microservices that processed hundreds of billions of database rows and was acquired in 2021. A former senior coach at Makers Academy, Alex has a strong track record of mentoring career changers into software roles and shaping practical curricula for web technologies and testing. He also co-created Investor List, a Product Hunt hit, and has served as a Technical Judge for TechCrunch Disrupt, reflecting a blend of product instincts and technical credibility. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he combines startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA English Studies Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA English Studies Linguistics at University of NottinghamMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (136)
python10
speech10
nested-json10
javascript10
jquery10
netlify10
checkbox10
static-site10
pytorch10
eleventy10
bootstrap10
link-header10
import-data10
csv9
html9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alexpeattie/windowed
Nov 2012 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 7 years 7 months
alexpeattie/letsencrypt-fromscratch
Mar 2016 - Jun 2021
A guide to creating a LetsEncrypt client from scratch in < 150 lines of Ruby
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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