Alex Sparrow
Founder at Scalar
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Sparrow is a founder and full-stack, data-centric software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable data platforms and production services from research to startup scale. After a PhD analysing CMS experiment data at CERN, he shifted to industry roles that blend distributed systems, data engineering and frontend robustness—leading migrations to Kubernetes, GraphQL client codegen, and tooling for large-scale simulations. He co-founded Quartic Technologies and now runs Scalar, helping organisations solve complex big-data engineering problems while freelancing through Sparrow Technologies. His background as a Palantir forward-deployed engineer and work on probabilistic graphical model products highlight a track record of turning messy, high-volume data into actionable systems. Based in London, he pairs deep technical fluency with hands-on leadership and a knack for shipping pragmatic, reusable platform components. An uncommon strength is his ability to move between low-level infrastructure and user-facing interfaces, making data workflows both scalable and usable.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD High Energy Physics, PhD High Energy Physics at Imperial College London
English, French, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
kotlin9
graphql-java9
probabilistic8
graphql-client8
linked-open-data8
triplestore7
federation7
graphql7
html6
iframe6
database6
sql6
css6
metadata6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scalar-dev/trawler
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Trawler is an open source data catalog with a powerful knowledge-graph data model
Contributions:120 commits, 10 PRs, 88 pushes in 5 months
linked-open-datadata-managementtriplestoremappingdbpedia
alexsparrow/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:47 pushes in 8 years 4 months
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