Alexander Phillips
Project Lead at WikiSim
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Phillips is a project lead and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading engineering teams from London. He combines hands‑on back-end and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the self-hosted monitoring project Cabot—with product leadership as founder of World Sim and director of Effect Engineering. Currently driving WikiSim.org, he focuses on making complex calculations and simulations accessible to help people understand policy and societal issues. His background spans biotech research (MPhil, Cambridge) to commercialising energy modelling at Kuppa, showing a rare blend of scientific rigour and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as an operator who moves fluidly between architecture, infrastructure, and mentoring while shipping reliable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBiochem Biochemistry, MBiochem Biochemistry at University of OxfordMPhil Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Bio-electrochemistry and automation, MPhil Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Bio-electrochemistry and automation at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (13)
alertdialog10
monitoring10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
devops10
python10
django10
jenkins-ci9
jenkins9
celery8
testing8
git7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
arachnys/cabot
Jan 2014 - Jul 2014
Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and configuration of the monitoring and alerting service, `cabot`. Their work includes adding features like linking to Jenkins jobs, creating a templatetag, and modifying the UI. They also made updates to infrastructure-related files, like celeryconfig and the manage.py to ensure the app functions as intended. Moreover, they made test fixes.
pythondeployabledevopsdjangohosted
AJamesPhillips/utils-ts
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 3 years 10 months
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