Alex Young
Staff Engineer at Thrive
North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Young is a Staff Engineer based in North Tyneside with a decade of experience building web and backend systems across startups and scale-ups. He progressed from self-employed developer to lead and head of engineering roles before taking senior and staff positions at Hive HR, Modlify, Impala, and now Thrive, demonstrating strength in both hands-on delivery and team leadership. Comfortable spanning full-stack responsibilities, he has a track record of shipping resilient production services and stepping into strategic engineering leadership. Unusually for a technologist, his academic background is in veterinary medicine, reflecting a pragmatic, analytical mindset applied to software problems. Active in his local community as a trustee of a sports club, he blends technical depth with practical stewardship outside work.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc), Veterinary Medicine, Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc), Veterinary Medicine at University of Liverpool
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Github Skills (127)
render10
aws-sdk-js10
prop10
dynamodb10
lambda10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
aws-sdk10
nodejs10
javascript9
scaffolding9
react-component9
pm29
nest9
react-redux9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alsiola/ts-optics
Mar 2020 - Feb 2026
Optics for the TS generation
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 11 months
lensopticstypescript
alsiola/with-timeout
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Add a timeout to an asynchronous function
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
asynchronousasync
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