Alex Williams
Senior Software Engineer at Lights on Software
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Williams is a Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning mobile and web development, embedded systems, hardware design, graphics programming, and computer security. He thrives in startup environments and has repeatedly taken POCs to production, most recently shaping system architecture as an early engineering hire at RxFood and now driving engineering at Lights on Software. His background includes cryptography and distributed systems work at TODAQ and applied optimization and backend engineering for logistics at Deliverr, illustrating comfort across both low-level systems and large-scale services. Alex pairs hands-on implementation with technical leadership—having led teams at EventMobi and held customer-facing VP responsibilities at Upverter—so he bridges product, engineering, and operations. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a pragmatic, security-aware approach to building reliable systems and often gravitates to projects that intersect hardware and software. An engineer who enjoys tackling messy, cross-domain problems, he’s as comfortable debugging embedded firmware as designing scalable TypeScript/Python backends.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
malexw/cohere-toolkit
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Toolkit is a collection of prebuilt components enabling users to quickly build and deploy RAG applications.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
malexw/release-container-test
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
A GitHub repo that demonstrates a workflow for building and testing a docker image when a release is generated.
Contributions:9 releases, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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