Summary
Alex Speed is a Lead Software Engineer with over eight years of professional experience and a long track record of senior technical roles including CTO and Technical Director across e-commerce, CMS, and security-focused projects. Currently working with TheoremOne and GitHub on IAM systems, he blends hands-on engineering with product and team-building experience to deliver fraud-resistant, high-performance solutions. Comfortable across Node, .NET, and PHP stacks as well as diverse database technologies, he routinely moves legacy programs to scalable, production-ready architectures. His background includes guiding market entry for a Japanese security vendor and overhauling shop and development practices for enterprise clients, showing a pragmatic mix of technical strategy and delivery. Based in Rushmoor, UK, he leverages a Computer Science degree from the University of Southampton and a habit of jumping between roles—from hands-on coding to executive leadership—to solve complex, security-sensitive problems.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Southampton