Alex Rowe
Senior Systems Engineer at Atlassian
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rowe is a Senior Systems Engineer with 13 years’ experience building and operating learning and collaboration platforms, currently shaping infrastructure at Atlassian from New South Wales. He combines hands-on systems engineering with product sensibilities honed as a co-founder and CEO of Numi, where he led mobile UX/UI, fundraising, and cross-functional stakeholder management. Alex has a strong background in learning systems at Study Group and practical IT roles across education and consulting, plus a Distinction BSc in IT from UTS. He contributes to open-source tooling for education platforms—enhancing Moodle’s configurable reports with remote DB support and charting fixes—demonstrating attention to both scalability and user-facing functionality. Pragmatic and versatile, he bridges technical execution, user experience, and partner-facing responsibilities.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Information Technology, Distinction, Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Information Technology, Distinction at University of Technology Sydney
English
Github Skills (4)
php10
sql10
moodle10
database-administration9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jleyva/moodle-block_configurablereports
Aug 2014 - Jan 2021
This block is a Moodle custom reports builder. You can create custom reports without SQL knowledge. It's a tool suitable for admins or teachers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 issues in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the configurablereports block's functionality within the Moodle environment. They implemented features to allow reports to run on a remote database and added corresponding configuration options. They also addressed a bug in the bar graph component, preventing offset errors. Further contributions included updating the pChart library, including converting the split function to explode.
moodlesql
agrowe/moodle
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
moodlelearning-platform
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