Alexander Yong
Technical Lead at Next DLP
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Yong is a Technical Lead based in London with 14 years of experience building resilient, real-time systems across networking, video conferencing, and security domains. He progressed from low-level platform and device-driver work at Cisco and Acano to leading engineering teams at Ava Security and Next DLP, blending hands-on debugging with architecture and containerization efforts. His background in electrical and electronic engineering (Imperial College) and an MSc in Software Engineering (Oxford) underpins a pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems and secure, production-grade software. Known as a good listener, he emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and translating operational realities into robust engineering practices. He has a track record of shipping platform migrations and resilient messaging systems (Raft-based) and thrives at the intersection of hardware bring‑up and cloud-native deployment. Colleagues value his steady technical judgement and ability to turn messy requirements into maintainable, testable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at University of OxfordMEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, MEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
pirate9
yargs8
python6
ansi-escape5
bitbake4
gcc4
netbsd4
raspberry-pi3
unikernel3
qemu3
matching3
telnet3
string-matching2
debian2
ansi2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
annonymouse/vim-castle
Dec 2011 - Jul 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
annonymouse/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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