Summary
Alex Scott is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years' experience building and scaling CI/CD systems for large, safety-critical codebases, currently leading an 8-person team at BMW on the Autonomous Driving monorepo. He helped grow the project's CI from 3k to 40k vCPUs and enabled ~1000 daily merges across 2000 developers, blending SRE practices, FinOps insight, and pragmatic automation. His background spans low-level simulation and rendering (Unity, CUDA, C++) to cloud-native tooling (Bazel, Kubernetes, Go, Python), giving him rare end-to-end visibility into both developer workflows and runtime infrastructure. He’s an experienced speaker on build systems (BazelCon) and brings a proven track record of reducing toil while improving developer velocity for large-scale engineering organizations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A2 Maths, Computing, Economics and AS Geography, A2 Maths, Computing, Economics and AS Geography at Richmond Upon Thames College
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Games Programming, Distinction (83%), Master of Science (MSc), Computer Games Programming, Distinction (83%) at Staffordshire University