Alexander Kitching
Senior Software Engineer at NearForm
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Kitching is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of professional experience delivering full-stack .NET and JavaScript applications and a strong interest in DevOps and cloud platforms. He currently builds client-facing products at NearForm after five years at AND Digital, where he worked across finance, telecoms and hospitality. Prior to his consultancy career he spent a decade in the video games industry creating gameplay systems, AI and platform releases for major LEGO titles across consoles and PC. That background gives him a rare blend of systems-level thinking, reusable architecture design and hands-on feature implementation. Comfortable shipping both enterprise software and performance-sensitive game code, he brings pragmatic engineering and an appetite for automation to every project. Based in Stevenage, he pairs solid academic training in Games Programming with a history of building small commercial utilities and tooling as a freelancer.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The English Martyrs School & Sixth Form CollegeSecond Class Honors, Division One, Computer Games Programming, Second Class Honors, Division One, Computer Games Programming at Teesside University
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (6)
facebook-messenger-bot9
spotify7
facebook-messenger6
facebook6
nodejs5
messenger4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexkitch/SpotifyJukebox
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
A demonstration of using a Facebook Messenger bot to create a Spotify 'jukebox' using Node.js
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
facebook-messenger-botmessenger-botnode-jsbotspotify
alexkitch/and-challenges
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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