Alex Potter
Staff Software Engineer at Okta
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Potter is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams from hands-on development to technical excellence. Based in Bristol, he progressed through roles at Softwire and Ghyston—where he rose from developer to Head of Tech Excellence—before joining Okta to focus on large-scale, security-conscious systems. He blends a strong mathematical foundation (MMath, University of Warwick) with practical leadership, mentoring engineers and codifying best practices that improve delivery and code quality. Alex is comfortable bridging product and engineering priorities, driving architecture decisions while still contributing code. He has a track record of fostering repeatable engineering processes and elevating team capability rather than just individual outputs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs rigorous thinking with a talent for making complex technical ideas accessible.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Mathematics (MMath) Mathematics, Master of Mathematics (MMath) Mathematics at University of Warwick
English
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Github Skills (36)
git10
formik10
powerline10
prompt-toolkit10
low-latency10
strongly-typed10
bash10
nushell10
validation10
validation-rules10
prompt10
react-hook-form10
fluentvalidation10
form-validation10
golang10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AlexJPotter/fluentvalidation-ts
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
A TypeScript-first library for building strongly-typed validation rules
Contributions:24 releases, 42 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 9 months
strongly-typedtypescriptvalidation-rulesfluentvalidation
AlexJPotter/NavProps
Jul 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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