Alex Wilkes
Assistant Head, Strategic Finance
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Wilkes is an experienced civil servant and strategic finance leader with 12 years of public sector experience, currently overseeing long-term financial planning for a multi-billion-pound defence budget. He combines high-stakes budget negotiation—having led inputs to the 2020 and 2025 Spending Reviews and briefed the Prime Minister—with hands-on technical curiosity, acting as product owner for data tools that link costs to outputs. Comfortable translating complex fiscal and security issues for senior leaders and Parliament, he has strengthened data quality and reporting standards across cross-disciplinary teams of economists, accountants and engineers. A Fast Stream alumnus, he brings programme delivery experience from ministerial offices to cultural institutions, and an unusual blend of coding and analytical skills that help turn ambiguous policy problems into auditable, insight-driven decisions.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, BSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations, Bachelor’s Degree, BSc (Hons) Politics and International Relations at University of Southampton
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
leap-motion10
bootstrap9
css8
javascript7
frontend7
jekyll5
sass5
nft4
batch4
ml5js3
commons3
playing2
rubiks-cube2
scalability2
ethereum2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wilkesalex/leapstrap
Oct 2013 - Aug 2020
Leapstrap - Leap Motion HTML5 CSS web frontend framework. Based on Bootstrap.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 11 months
bootstrap4css-html5cssjavascriptfrontend-framework
wilkesalex/gcnft
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
GitHub Commit NFT Platform
Contributions:15 PRs, 18 pushes, 11 branches in 22 days
ethereumweb3subgraphnftcommit
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