Summary
Ashish Alex is a Senior Data Engineer based in London with 8 years’ experience building automated data platforms and developer tools across automotive, e‑commerce, and SaaS. He leads end-to-end pipeline and CI/CD design using Dataform, BigQuery and Airflow, and has saved operations teams hours daily by automating a 15‑year manual process at JLR. Beyond pipelines, he authors popular Dataform tooling (including a widely used VSCode extension) and builds CLI utilities to speed developer workflows. His background spans data science, ETL, DBA work and machine learning research—he holds a PhD in audio speech separation and has taught deep learning labs. Comfortable bridging research and production, he focuses on pragmatic automation that improves developer productivity and business KPIs.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Computer Systems and Network Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Systems and Network Engineering at University of Greenwich
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Audio speech separation using machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Audio speech separation using machine learning at Queen Mary University of London