Alex Van Der Valk
Sales Engineer at Directus
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Van Der Valk is a solutions-focused Sales Engineer with seven years of experience at the intersection of fast-paced enterprise sales and hands-on technical delivery. He has driven deals across regions and complexity—building proofs of concept and demonstrating value from startups to platforms like Directus and Twilio—while covering markets including Africa and Israel. Comfortable coding and deploying modern front-end stacks (Angular, Svelte, TypeScript) and leveraging AWS, he pairs developer fluency with persuasive customer-facing storytelling. His background in front-office architecture and consulting gives him a pragmatic systems view that shortens sales cycles and reduces implementation risk. Based in London, he brings both commercial savvy and implementation chops, often turning ambiguous requirements into concrete technical demos that win buy-in.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, IT and Commerce, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, IT and Commerce at University of Cape TownBachelor's Degree, Business Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Business Information Technology at University of GreenwichRondebosch Boys High School
Github Skills (35)
json10
cms10
directus10
javascript10
graphql-api10
dashboard10
postgresql10
sqlite10
mysql10
mariadb10
no-code10
typescript10
redactor10
oracle10
wysiwyg10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AlexGaillard/reActlas
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
A country explorer built using React.js and the REST Countries API.
Contributions:1 release, 51 PRs, 62 pushes in 8 months
apireactjavascriptrest-countries-apicountries-api
AlexGaillard/directus
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.
Contributions:40 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 6 months
no-codecollaborationintuitivedirectusdata-stack
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