Alex Williams
Principal Software Engineer at Sky Betting & Gaming
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Williams is a Principal Software Engineer in Leeds with 11 years' experience designing and delivering high-traffic, AWS-native systems and CI/CD-driven platforms. At Sky Betting & Gaming he leads architecture and mentoring for serverless, container and networking solutions using AWS CDK, TypeScript, Kotlin/Java, Docker/Fargate and Jenkins. Comfortable bridging development and operations, he has a proven track record migrating legacy systems to AWS, instrumenting large Java estates, and building secure auth and account services. Equally at home running workshops and customer consultations as writing production code, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and technical leadership. An accomplished polyglot who favors JVM and JS ecosystems, he consistently picks up new tools to solve operational scale and networking challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Computer Systems and Software Engineering, 1st class (hons), Master of Engineering, Computer Systems and Software Engineering, 1st class (hons) at University of York5 A-levels, 4 AS-levels, all at grade 'A', including Computing (National Top Ten), Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Music, 5 A-levels, 4 AS-levels, all at grade 'A', including Computing (National Top Ten), Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Music at Shenley Brook End School
German
Github Skills (71)
xero-api9
rfc9
populate8
encoder8
junit8
mvp8
logstash-logback-encoder8
testing8
junit-rule8
utility8
rule8
google-photos-api8
json8
xero7
docker-compose7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexswilliams/orcid-utils
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Validates and formats ORCID numbers
Contributions:14 releases, 1 review, 132 PRs in 5 years 3 months
validatorformatsorcidvalidation
alexswilliams/kerbal-kalkulator-js
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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