Alex Tomlins
Senior Sales Executive at Exact
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Tomlins is a Senior Sales Executive based in London with 18 years of experience selling IT business solutions across direct and partner channels, regularly engaging VITO/C-level and technical stakeholders. He has deep domain expertise in analytics, enterprise reporting, CRM/SFA, ERP and EPM, and has a track record of becoming a trusted advisor who drives revenue and account growth. Alex combines field sales discipline—won through managing 65-store regions and repeated quarter-on-quarter profit growth—with consultative, project-focused selling for complex software deployments. He pairs commercial acumen with hands-on technical familiarity, evidenced by backend contributions to notable open-source projects like alphagov/whitehall and afero that improved API stability and filesystem behavior. Comfortable bridging sales, pre-sales and engineering, he excels at turning technical complexity into clear business value for both new and established accounts.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A - Levels and GCSEs, Mathematics, Biology and Geography (A levels), A - Levels and GCSEs, Mathematics, Biology and Geography (A levels) at Sir William Borlase Grammar School, Marlow, Bucks
Github Skills (18)
cron10
ruby-rails10
filesystem10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
rails10
go-testing10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
go10
api10
chef-solo10
cgm10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 16 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Whitehall application. They made several code changes related to API responses, including fixing URL generation, updating index calculations, and adding web URLs to API responses. The user also implemented crucial changes to the application's infrastructure, such as moving exception notifier configurations and adding logging for request IDs. These modifications likely improved the application's stability, API functionality, and overall performance.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
spf13/afero
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the `MemMapFs` implementation within the `afero` library, which is a file system abstraction for Go. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to file deletion, and implementing support for file flags such as `O_CREATE`, `O_TRUNC`, and `O_APPEND` in the `OpenFile` function. These changes aimed to enhance the functionality and compatibility of `MemMapFs` with the standard Go `os` package.
golangfsvfsfilesystemabstraction
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