Alexander Curtis Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Full stack JS/TS developer and interim technical lead, working across all parts of the FT's newspaper website, in a team focussed on providing a personalised experience for subscribers.The ft.com site is a high-availability platform built on AWS and Heroku, following industry best-practice such as continuous deployment (CI/CD) and agile development.The tech stack includes Node, Javascript ES6, Typescript, React/Preact, Express, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, in addition to Microservices, REST, GraphQL, SQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Neo4J, TDD using Mocha and Jest.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

As the first employee at this eCommerce startup, I built the company's full stack web platform. The platform comprises a customer facing website, and two business facing websites, built using React/Redux, running on a server-side platform using Amazon AWS and Serverless (Lambda) technologies, interfacing with 3rd party APIs.Tech stack is a combination of Node (ES6 and Typescript) and Clojure on the server, and React and Redux Javascript ES6 on the client, using Amazon AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, SQS, SNS, Docker, ECS, Cloudformation, REST, Agile, TDD

London, United Kingdom

I led the back-office cross-functional team (3 other devs, a data-analyst and 2 business ops) building and maintaining the applications that comprise uSwitch's energy-comparison back-office infrastructure, including data processing and financial reporting software.Tech-wise it's a cloud-based system that follows a microservices architecture connected together with REST and RabbitMQ. Codebase uses functional programming in Clojure. It runs on AWS, Continuous integration and delivery is done using Docker, Drone and Bamboo. Agile development process is based on Kanban.I also worked as a senior dev on the energy website team, on a technology upgrade project to ensure the site continues to give the best experience to desktop and mobile users alike.Tech stack is Javascript ES6, AWS, React and Redux on the client, with Ruby on Rails on the server side.

London, United Kingdom

Technical lead on a small team building a next-generation e-commerce platform. The product began with a fragile Java monolith, running on leased hardware, where even minor changes were time consuming and costly. We developed a new microservice architecture using Java and Clojure.Technologies used included Java, Clojure, REST, Spring, Hibernate, Spring Boot, Mongo DB, Docker and DropWizard. Agile development process (SCRUM).

London, United Kingdom

I worked as a freelancer designing and building e-commerce and auction systems. My first client had outgrown their existing website, and were looking to modernise with an auction and retail platform integrated with their existing back office systems.The project involved the specification, design, build, test, deployment and maintenance of the entire full-stack system, including both server and client technologies.This first project was followed by a corporate content management system, and then another auction website for a sister company, both developed from the code of the first project.Tech: Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux

Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

I worked on Windows Server and Web-based messaging and voicemail systems. My main contribution was a Web-based Voicemail application that lets users listen to their voicemail through either their PC or their desktop telephone.Tech: Microsoft Visual C++, PHP, JavascriptI worked on the company's embedded software team where I developed a number of new features for their flagship range of small-medium-business telephone systems. The most interesting feature I developed was to enable users to hot-desk between phones on different exchanges distributed over the network.Tech: Embedded C++ on a proprietary Real-Time Operating System.

Education record

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electronic Engineering

Analogue Electronics (1st), Digital Electronics (1st), Mathematics (1st)