Alex Stevens
Deputy Head, Crisis Management Department at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Stevens is a senior international affairs leader with 20 years’ experience designing and delivering strategy, policy and crisis response across the FCDO/DFID, NGOs and multilateral fora. He has more than 18 years of in-country practice across the Caribbean and multiple African contexts, leading portfolios and programmes totalling hundreds of millions and directing teams through high-stakes humanitarian and governance challenges. Skilled at translating political economy analysis into practical programming, he has led major UK government processes and represented UK positions at OECD-DAC, EU, World Bank and UN tables. As Deputy Head of Crisis Management he combines operational contingency planning with doctrine and preparedness work, and his background includes hands-on programme design in fragile, post-conflict settings. An unexpected technical footnote: he contributes backend code to open-source media server projects (Emby/Jellyfin), demonstrating a practical, problem-solving curiosity beyond policy and programme worlds.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Violence, Conflict and Development, Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development, MSc Violence, Conflict and Development, Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development at School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of LondonBSc International History and International Relations, International Political Theory; History of Ideas; International Organisations; Diplomatic History, BSc International History and International Relations, International Political Theory; History of Ideas; International Organisations; Diplomatic History at London School of Economics and Political Science
French
Github Skills (13)
xml10
asp-net10
net10
jellyfin10
dotnet10
sqlite10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework9
sqlite-database9
api8
apidoc8
database-design7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MediaBrowser/Emby
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `XmlTvListingsProvider` within the Emby server project. Their work involved implementing features for retrieving and integrating XMLTV data, including parsing, channel and program information. They added channel and program image retrieval and category mapping, further enhancing the integration of external TV listings into the Emby platform. Code changes also included modifying the `SqliteItemRepository.cs`, and updating the `librarylist.js` file.
emby-serverembymedia-server
jellyfin/jellyfin
May 2016 - Jun 2016
The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the Live TV functionality within the Jellyfin project. They implemented an `XmlTvListingsProvider` to fetch TV listings from XMLTV files. Subsequent commits added channel and program image support, genre mapping, and improved the handling of channel data. Further commits incorporated various refinements including fixing series identification and integrating changes from the upstream development branch.
backendjellyfincsharpdotnet
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