Alexander Jones
Senior Software Developer at Bloomberg LP
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Jones is a Senior Software Developer with 16 years' experience building production systems, currently shaping scalable solutions at Bloomberg in London. His background spans R&D work for visual effects at Double Negative and earlier software roles, giving him a strong blend of physics-driven problem solving and practical systems engineering. With an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London, he brings analytical rigor to complex software design and performance optimisation. Though not actively seeking roles, he works four days a week and is open to opportunities in London, Amsterdam, or Berlin, signalling selective interest in the right cultural and technical fit. Colleagues describe him as quietly impactful—preferring deep technical contributions over visibility, and excelling at turning research-style thinking into reliable, maintainable code.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Physics, First, MSci, Physics, First at Imperial College London
Github Skills (163)
addon10
json-parser10
msgpack10
testing10
windows10
bson10
cpp10
clang10
javascript10
json-pointer10
type-check10
cbor10
linux10
googletest10
napi10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alex-weej/json
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
JSON for Modern C++
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years
cppc-plus-plusmodern-ccpp17json
alexweej/node
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Node.js JavaScript runtime :sparkles::turtle::rocket::sparkles:
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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