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.
10 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 (69)
router10
react9
typescript9
javascript8
points8
effector8
authentication8
declarative8
webpack8
ccd8
json8
api-client7
saml7
identity7
api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexwakeman/music-of-the-spheres
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
alexwakeman/node-mongo-data-access
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 18 pushes in 2 months
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