Alex Saunders
Senior Software Engineer at Ministry of Justice UK
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Saunders is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building web applications and migrating legacy systems into modern, cloud-native architectures at the Ministry of Justice UK. Language-agnostic and Makers Academy-trained, he has led PHP-to-Go rewrites, prototyped event-driven AWS workflows to replace CSV processes, and sped up CI by parallelising integration tests to cut runtimes dramatically. He blends engineering craft with people leadership—line managing and coaching junior and apprentice developers while running testing Communities of Practice to raise quality across teams. Comfortable bridging dev and DevOps concerns, he has created infra scripts for ECS tasks and helped codify infrastructure in Terraform. Based in England, Alex pairs pragmatic delivery with a data-driven approach to prioritisation and technical debt, and has a track record of influencing leadership to adopt safer, more scalable technologies.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Partially completed, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Partially completed at The Open UniversityBoot Camp, Full Stack Web Development, Boot Camp, Full Stack Web Development at Makers AcademyBachelor of Science (BSc), Sound & Multimedia Technology, 2:2, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Sound & Multimedia Technology, 2:2 at Birmingham City University
Github Skills (14)
terraform-provider8
terraform8
terragrunt7
vcenter7
sketchup7
serve6
opc5
cdktf3
aws2
hcl1
sirius1
infrastructure1
data-infrastructure1
golang1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
acsauk-mojd/blue-green-deployments
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
A repo to play with and learn about blue green deployments
Contributions:22 PRs, 114 pushes, 16 branches in 5 months
continuous-deploymentblueblue-greengocddeployment
acsauk-mojd/katas
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
A collection of code katas to work through
Contributions:5 PRs, 28 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
katas
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