Alex Woolford
Sr. Field Engineer at Neo4j
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Woolford is a senior field engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering Big Data and streaming architectures for enterprise and startup customers. He blends deep hands-on expertise across graph databases, Kafka/Confluent streaming, Spark, NiFi/StreamSets and cloud data platforms with a consultative pre-sales approach that turns business problems into operational analytics and real-time solutions. At Neo4j and Confluent he’s closed diverse, high-impact engagements—spanning recommendations, digital twins, fraud detection, and IoT anomaly detection—and frequently pairs graph and streaming tech for novel use cases. A practiced communicator and teacher, he presents at meetups and conferences, maintains tutorial video content, and builds home-lab demos that drive his practical experimentation. Notably, his background ranges from building a production linking engine for identity resolution to reducing large-scale data refreshes from weeks to hours, demonstrating a knack for system-level optimization as well as customer-facing technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Diploma Management, Professional Diploma Management at The Open UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Master of Science (MSc) Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of ManagementCounting reading and writing, Counting reading and writing at Stoke Poges First School
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Github Skills (81)
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Github contributions (5)
alexwoolford/alexwoolford.github.io
Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:77 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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alexwoolford/snowplow-kafka-streams
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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