Alex Ware
Senior Software Engineer at DeepL
Abergavenny, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Ware is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web and serverless systems, currently applying his craft at DeepL from Wales. He has strong full-stack instincts honed at The Guardian, where he led TypeScript adoption, helped redesign editorial infrastructure, and shipped subscription and contributions platforms that reduced customer contacts and enabled new analytics. Alex contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as the Guardian frontend and image management repos, improving UI flows, payment integrations, and resilient back-end processes like promise queues and exponential backoff. Comfortable across front-end and back-end boundaries, he combines pragmatic infrastructure work (CDK, serverless) with hands-on UI polish and mentoring, and often surfaces non-obvious value by turning operational needs into analyzable revenue streams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Truro SchoolBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at University of WarwickHigh School, Physics, Maths, Further Maths, High School, Physics, Maths, Further Maths at Brockenhurst College
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Github Skills (15)
s610
javascript10
image-management10
frontend10
stripe10
react9
performance-optimization9
error-handling9
nodejs9
html9
css9
angularjs8
api-design8
realm6
react-native6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/grid
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
The Guardian’s image management system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:238 reviews, 525 commits, 300 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on modifying the `reaper/index.js` file, likely involved in an image management system. Their contributions include removing an elk logger and replacing it with default log shipping, adding a promise queue for image deletions, and implementing an exponential backoff for an API polling function. They also made updates to an angular based frontend library.
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guardian/frontend
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:261 commits, 165 PRs, 199 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on front-end development within the `guardian/frontend` repository, specifically contributing to the user interface of the "mma" (likely membership management) and digital pack sections. Their work involved implementing error handling, modifying UI components, and integrating with payment systems like Stripe. The user also refactored JavaScript code into ES6 modules and addressed minor code style issues.
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