Alex H.

Distinguished Engineer & Head Of Technical Strategy at GoCardless

Alex H. has a diverse work experience in various companies. They started their career at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence as a Software Engineer, where they worked on architecting a large-scale data enrichment service and implementing an Identity & Access Management system. They then joined SwiftKey as a Software Engineer, where they built and re-engineered cloud services and reduced call-outs by implementing monitoring and tracing systems. At Microsoft, they continued their work on backend systems supporting SwiftKey and focused on scalability and data processing. They later joined Synthace Limited as a Software Engineer and eventually became a Technical Team Lead, leading the Core Services team and rebuilding the services stack. Currently, they work at GoCardless as a Principal Software Engineer and Distinguished Engineer & Head of Technical Strategy, responsible for developing technical architecture, roadmap, and strategy aligned with the company's goals.

Alex H. has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the University of Warwick. No further information is available regarding their education history.

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  • Distinguished Engineer & Head Of Technical Strategy

    July, 2023 - present

  • Principal Software Engineer

    August, 2021

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