thearchdev / thearchdev.github.io

My personal user page through GitHub Pages

Hi there, I'm Alex 👋🏽

I'm a software engineer experienced in backend web development, cloud platforms and DevOps tooling and who has interests across the wider tech stack!

Work experience

I spent 5 years working in healthtech as a backend developer / platform engineering manager at Digital Surgery (acquired by Medtronic in 2020), contributing to projects including

• Touch Surgery Enterprise: a cloud-based, AI-powered surgical video and analytics platform for the operating room (involved web, mobile and hardware clients)
• Touch Surgery Simulations: a library of interactive computer-generated and video-based surgical procedures (available on iOS and Android)

(^^ above not hosted on GitHub)

Background

I started out in 2014 as a physics graduate before working in technology transfer for over a year. I transitioned my career to hands-on software development through a full-stack programming bootcamp in Costa Rica in 2016. Since then I've been part of product development & infrastructure teams both as an individual contributor and as a people manager. I've been able to experience start-up as well as more corporate work environments. I took part in the Recurse Center in 2021. I am currently based in London.

More About Me

• 🌱 I’m currently learning Golang!
• 👨🏽‍💻 I'm interested in developer tooling & experience and how teams can deliver software more securely, reliably and quickly
• 🤝🏾 I’m looking to collaborate on open source projects, particularly ones written in Python or Go and around open online education
• 💬 Ask me about going between IC and management roles, London tech life and how much I love using Workflowy!
• 📫 How to reach me? I can generally be found with the handle @TheArchDev or am also on LinkedIn