Alex Thurow
(Modern ) Software Development Consultant at Alexander Thurow - Softwareentwicklung & -beratung
Calgary, Alberta, Germany
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Top SchoolAlex Thurow is a Modern Software Development Consultant with 20+ years of hands-on experience helping teams tame technical complexity while foregrounding the often-overlooked human factors like cognitive load, team cohesion, and sustainable learning. Based in Calgary and Germany, he blends deep Java/Eclipse RCP and enterprise tooling experience with pragmatic practices—pair programming, TDD, refactoring and CI/CD—to improve product quality and developer flow. A seasoned speaker and university guest lecturer, Alex distills his career into structured talks and consulting engagements that translate theory (Dreyfus model, cognitive biases) into actionable team improvements. He launched a consultancy and a focused two-person senior pairing offering to bring gelled, high-impact delivery to projects that need both craftsmanship and cultural change. Notably, his work combines product-level engineering (Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube) with an explicit emphasis on reducing attention friction so teams can “move constructively forward, together.”
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyDiplom Wirtschaftsinformatik, Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatik at Leuphana University of Lüneburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (20)
php10
ecommerce9
magento9
adobe9
affiliates8
projeto6
spring-boot4
angular3
java3
api-client2
python2
sdk2
api2
mercadopago1
paypal1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thurow/social-condominium
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 45 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
thurow/todolist-reactjs
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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