Hi, I'm Alex, the
Creative Technologist.

What I did and do:

I am a currently a VP Education and Evangelism Lead, for Engineering Practices at JPMorganChase in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the land of the unicorns 🦄. I am also a speaker, community manager and graduate of an MSc Computer Science at the University of Bath.

I am a creative technologist and product leader that combines technical acumen, content architecture and community engagement to overcome adoption challenges and delight developers in the engineering practices and productivity space. 

I specialize in platform to customer and product to developer adoption acceleration and development, with over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, working with over 50.000 technologists and developers as customers, bringing innovative products to life through strategic content and community building.

In my previous role, I've significantly driven cloud adoption for, boosting content utilization by 120% YoY, to 1mil by over 30.000 developers and growing platform accounts from 100 to 1400. My expertise lies in bridging product, design, engineering, and customer teams, boosting adoption, retention, and best practices through data-driven community strategies and impactful education.

I used to work as a conversational developer, software engineer and community manager among other things. As a fervent advocate of diversity in tech, I support various communities, such as codebar, Aspiring Women Speakers, #IamRemarkable, GitHub Campus Experts, Women Techmakers and more!

In my role, I help bring products and brands to life using community, content and marketing, as well as acting as a navigator between product, design, engineering and customer teams. This is all supported by data and feedback in all the work I do in the product space and enables me to reach the adoption and retention goals of the business whilst delighting current and potential customers!

Outside of work:

My focus outside my role is on actively pursuing community, product and developer adoption opportunities in public speaking, learning and collaborating with others. I love to help people achieve their dreams and support them through delightful experiences.

I see technology as a driver of innovation and a continuous learning curve but I believe people come before technology. Keen to promote global active citizenship, passionate about entrepreneurship and an advocate for communities of practice and diversity in technology. I love languages, speak 4 and learning more, with a 1500+ day streak on Duolingo!