Alex Scown
Full Stack Developer
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorAlex Scown is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with 12 years' experience building full-stack web and backend platforms for IoT, mobile and enterprise search. He has led feature design and delivery at scale—shaping HPE IDOL admin tooling and now driving backend and admin UIs, large MongoDB data transformations and developer Docker workflows at Checkit.net. Comfortable across the stack, Alex blends pragmatic engineering with backend architecture and occasional UX collaboration, and he regularly refactors legacy code to improve modularity and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, he improved AI and code structure in a popular curated edition of Basic Computer Games, demonstrating attention to algorithmic detail and memory-safe scripting practices. He holds a first-class BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Durham, reflecting strong analytical foundations behind his hands-on engineering.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (8)
basics10
logic10
ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
gam9
g9
algorithms8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
coding-horror/basic-computer-games
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the game logic in the Awari game within the repository. Their contributions involved removing global variables, moving functions into a class structure, and fixing the AI. The user improved the AI's decision-making process to ensure accurate and optimized moves. These code changes improved the Awari game's functionality and code maintainability.
programming-languagescriptingbasic-computer-gamesclassic-game
hpe-idol/java-iod-client
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:218 commits in 2 years 2 months
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