Alex Wilson
Engineering Manager, Technical Platform
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wilson is an engineering leader and full‑stack technologist with 15 years’ experience building reliable, high‑performance web products and platforms, currently managing Technical Platform at Money Forward in Tokyo. He combines hands‑on engineering—evidenced by open‑source contributions to projects like LiipImagineBundle optimizing image pipelines—with strategic leadership at the Financial Times where he led teams for customer‑facing journalism, elections‑grade site reliability, and enterprise product launches. Comfortable across security, observability and performance domains, Alex has also worked in cyber security and IAM, bringing a pragmatic risk‑reduction mindset to product development. He champions web standards, experimentation (feature toggles/MVT) and cross‑discipline teams, and is an aspiring polyglot and occasional red‑teamer who enjoys turning complex legacy estates into faster, more trustworthy systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
altMBA44 Opal, Business Administration and Management, General, altMBA44 Opal, Business Administration and Management, General at Seth Godin's altMBAComputer Science, Computer Science at University of LondonKing Edwards VI Camp Hill School for Boys
English, Russian, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
php10
symfony-bundle10
image-processing10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
yaml8
testing7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
liip/LiipImagineBundle
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Symfony Bundle to assist in image manipulation using the imagine library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 24 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the implementation of post-processors for image optimization within the LiipImagineBundle. This involved adding support for MozJpeg and Pngquant, including the necessary code to interact with these external tools and integrate them into the bundle's workflow. Additionally, the user made improvements to documentation and refactored code for better maintainability, reflecting a focus on image processing optimization and Symfony bundle development. Furthermore, the user modified existing filters, adding new parameters.
image-manipulationsymfony-bundlephpbundlesymfony
StormBit/stormbit-keyring
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
SSH Keys
Contributions:8 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 10 months
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