Summary
Alex Smith is a software engineer with 11 years’ experience specialising in FinTech and financial institutions, now applying his expertise at Millennium after senior roles at JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. He has a strong full-stack background and a proven ability to rapidly master new technologies and domains—demonstrated by leading rebuilds that scaled PoCs into investor-backed products and modernising firmwide systems. As a founder of a carbon accounting SaaS he combined product strategy, serverless architecture (React/Next.js, Node, Terraform, AWS) and multi-tenant engineering with day-to-day operational ownership. Comfortable working solo or as a technical leader, he excels at resolving complex engineering problems, improving CI/CD and observability, and delivering performant user-facing applications. Based in Greenwich, England, Alex brings a physicist’s analytical rigor from UCL to pragmatic software design and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Maths Further Maths Chemistry Computing, Physics Maths Further Maths Chemistry Computing at The 6th Form College Farnborough
University College London
English