Alex Pickering

Alex Pickering has a diverse work experience in software engineering. Alex most recently worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Deimos starting in October 2022. Prior to that, they served as a Lead Software Engineer at Sigma Digital pty ltd from July 2020 to September 2022, where they were responsible for technical decision making and managing developers for various projects. Alex also worked as a Software Engineer at DPO South Africa from August 2019 to April 2020, contributing to the development of applications and spearheading a notification system project. Earlier in their career, Alex worked as a Software Engineer at iflix from December 2018 to August 2019, focusing on building and maintaining the core payments engine. Alex also gained experience as a Software Engineer at Infinea from May 2018 to November 2018, working on middleware components and front-end development. Additionally, they worked at City & Guilds Kineo as a Software Engineer from March 2016 to September 2016, where they customized Totara-powered LMS for clients.

Alex Pickering's education history includes the following qualifications. In 2017, they completed a Front-End Web Developer Nanodegree from Udacity, specializing in computer software engineering. Prior to that, from 2011 to 2015, they attended Wynberg Boys' High School and obtained a Senior Certificate.

In addition to their formal education, Alex has also earned several certifications. In February 2021, they became a Neo4j 4.0 Certified professional through Neo4j. In November 2022, they obtained the Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) credential from SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile. Alex also holds certifications in Redis Data Structures and Redis Security from Redis Labs, which they earned in September 2020. In July 2020, they became a Neo4j Certified Professional through Neo4j. Finally, in February 2019, they completed a course on AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework from Udemy.