Summary
Alex 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