Alex Mather

Alex Mather is the VP of Video Technology at Grabyo. Alex has over three years of experience as a Systems Architect and Senior Java Developer. Alex rejoined Britehouse in July 2017 to help with the re-branding and relaunching of the mobile product. Alex was also responsible for converting legacy spring-based applications to Springboot, integrating the application with Consul service discovery, setting up development and build pipelines on Jenkins (later migrated to Azure Devops), assisting the mobile team with the Ionic framework and overall maintenance to improve the codebase (refactoring, proper release versions, integration test suite) to drive quality and stability of the product. From an architecture perspective, they were involved in analysis sessions around the domain, identifying key components and formulating a strategy to migrate legacy applications without business impact. Some of the key technologies they have experience with include Java, Springboot, Spring Cache, EHCache, Spring Integration testing, Consul, SQL Server, Spring MVC, Jersey REST, Jira, Git, Github, Jenkins, IntelliJ, ActiveMQ, Azure, Docker, Grafana, InfluxDb, Linux, Flutter and Angular.

Some of Alex's accomplishments include adopting and endorsing the organisations strategy to pivot the entire business on SAFE Agile methodology and driving a massive cost saving initiative to reduce our cloud infrastructure bill by around 40%. Alex also implemented Integration tests across the major server side components to drive quality around code delivery and setup Grafana and InfluxDB to serve as a monitoring platform that First and Second line support teams could use to support and resolve problems.

Alex Mather has a degree in Java Programming & Object Orientated Analysis and Design from VZAP (Van Zyl & Pritchard). Alex also has a degree in Enterprise Architecture from SOLMS. Additionally, they have a degree in Object Analysis and UML from SOLMS. Lastly, they have a degree in Advanced Java Programming from VZAP (Van Zyl & Pritchard), with a focus in Java web applications. Alex also has a HIGCSE from Westwood International School.

Alex Mather reports to Gareth Capon, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Chrysanthe Nikakis - Head, Sales Operations, Elliot Renton - EVP, APAC, and David O’Neill - VP, Customer Success.