Alex Southgate
Engineering Manager at WorkOS
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Southgate is an engineering and product leader with 14 years of experience building high-agency teams and scalable platform products, currently leading Product and Foundation engineering at WorkOS from Lisbon. Previously at GitHub he grew and led large organizations—scaling payments from $20M to $450M ARR and directing a 24-person Core Services group that supported revenue-critical systems and experimentation. He blends hands-on technical depth with product-minded management, focusing on APIs and platform foundations that expand total addressable market. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has a track record of turning early-stage projects into reliable, revenue-driving services and has a background in founding and consulting for web-focused startups. A dual UK/US perspective informs his collaborative, cross-cultural leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (55)
emoji9
javascript9
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web-development9
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documentation8
braintree8
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fundamentals8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
southgate/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 11 months
southgate/southgate
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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