Alex Wakeman
Technical Lead at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wakeman is a Technical Lead based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering production systems across national security, government, and commercial sectors. He combines architecture and solution design with pragmatic data engineering, AI, Python and DevOps expertise, and a strong track record of simplifying complex problems for diverse stakeholders. A seasoned people manager and mentor, Alex consistently unblocks teams and fosters engineering craft while retaining a coder’s mindset—12+ years of production coding across startups and large organisations. His background includes recurrent leadership roles at the UK Home Office and recent technical leadership at DEFRA, reflecting a focus on mission-critical, auditable systems. Unusually for a technical lead, he also brings grounded insight from early work in GIS and navigation systems, which informs his attention to data integrity and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons.) Psychology, BSc (Hons.) Psychology at Coventry UniversityUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (47)
ccd9
frontend8
react8
typescript8
javascript7
webpack7
api7
microservices6
css6
keycloak6
saml6
api-client6
compiler5
aws5
amd5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexwakeman/colab-codes
Jul 2020 - Sep 2025
Company Homepage with Spirograph graphics
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
spirographgraphics
alexwakeman/music-of-the-spheres
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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