Alex Watkinson
Senior Software Engineer at Kroo Bank
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Watkinson is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems, now focused on cloud-native platforms and microservices at Kroo Bank. He has a strong track record in startups and scale-ups—designing secure, scalable AWS + Kubernetes infrastructure at Audoo and leading full-stack product and annotation tooling at a language-learning startup that exited. Comfortable across backend, frontend and DevOps, Alex has repeatedly moved services from monoliths to microservices, implemented CI/CD, and owned observability and data pipelines. He pairs hands-on engineering with team-building and remote collaboration practices, having grown engineering capability and instituted effective retros and planning. Trained in music technology and computer science, he brings a rare mix of audio-domain product experience and production-grade systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DIP(COMP) Computer Science Software development and A.I., DIP(COMP) Computer Science Software development and A.I. at The Open UniversityBachelor's Degree Music Technology, Bachelor's Degree Music Technology at The University of Huddersfield
German
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Github Skills (4)
aws1
amazon-kinesis1
amazon1
in-memory1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Almerc/almerc.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:282 pushes in 1 year
Almerc/RockulusRifft
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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