Alex Staveley
Platform Architect
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Staveley is a Platform Architect based in Dublin with over two decades of software engineering experience and 13 years focused in senior architecture roles, driving pragmatic, scalable Java and REST-based platforms. He has repeatedly turned complex domain problems into reusable, testable architectures—most recently leading the design of a feature-rich REST API framework adopted by 20+ scrum teams with 90% unit test coverage and CI-enforced architectural patterns. Alex blends hands-on engineering (Spring, Jersey, Spock, Gradle) with leadership: mentoring API champions, producing 70+ API best practices, and influencing long-term technical investment across product and development stakeholders. His background spans large enterprises (IBM, MasterCard, Ericsson) where he introduced DDD, microservice-ready modularity, ATDD/BDD, and performance-focused persistence refactors that yielded measurable gains. Not obvious from titles alone, he frequently builds prototypes and tooling that become the definitive reference implementations for teams, earning recognition such as an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Electronic Engineering, Honours, Electronic Engineering at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (23)
java7
swagger7
rest7
specification7
api-specification7
api7
openapi7
rest-api7
spring-boot6
grails6
spring6
swagger-ui5
integrations5
json4
json-api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kukov/JavaScript_Examples
Nov 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 9 months
progammingjavascript
dublintech/sportstudio
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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