Alexander Lydiate
Founding Engineer at Demeter
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Lydiate is a Founding Engineer and pragmatic software architect with nine years of progressive experience building scalable, data-driven systems across startups, academia, and international organisations. He has led technical strategy and delivery for high-profile projects like the IATI Unified Platform—processing over a million XML documents—and most recently drives product development at Demeter. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Java, Python, JavaScript, C/C++) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), he specialises in serverless architectures, data indexing, and resilient backend systems. Alexander pairs hands-on implementation—having worked on robotics AI at Dyson and high-traffic e-commerce platforms—with team leadership of remote and distributed engineers. He brings a rare blend of humanities training and rigorous software engineering, enabling clear communication of complex technical trade-offs to stakeholders. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical lead who turns messy legacy estates into reliable, maintainable platforms.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PG Cert Software Engineering, PG Cert Software Engineering at University of the West of EnglandBA(Hons) English and Theatre, BA(Hons) English and Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London
Github Skills (62)
xml-schema9
azure-container-instances9
xml8
responsibility8
xslt7
codelist7
polling7
azure6
cli6
schema6
validation6
django6
command-line-interface6
angular5
amazon5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
IATI/IATI-Validator-Actual
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 13 commits in 1 year 1 month
IATI/IATI-Validator-Server
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 12 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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