Alex Ford

Alex ford

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location of Alex FordNew York, New York, United States
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  • About me

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Education

    • Queen's university

      2011 - 2014
      Bachelor of science (honours) chemistry

      Activities and Societies: Varsity Squash Team - Captain and Number 1 Ranking Queen's Literature Appreciation Society Intramural Sports (Basketball, Volleyball) Queen's Students on Broadway Graduated with a B.Sc in Chemistry, with a focus on Physical and Analytical Chemistry. Thesis involved computer simulation of diamond surfaces to calculate the coefficient of friction

    • Queen's university

      2007 - 2011
      Bachelor of science (honours) life sciences (neuroscience)

      Graduated with Honours in Life Sciences, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience.

  • Experience

    • Queen's university

      May 2011 - Aug 2011
      Research assistant

      Performed eye-movement tracking studies of adolescents with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the Eastern Central Ontario area. This work aided in the creation of a widely-used clinical database of FASD patients.

    • Public health ontario

      Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
      Environmental bacteriology technician

      Preparing bacterial cultures from drinking and pool water samples from across Ontario.

    • Devlift media inc.

      Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
      Junior software developer

      Developed mobile applications using a JavaScript-based hybrid application framework. Designed and developed a Mobile and social-media game using Unity3D. Aided in the development of a large-scale enterprise website with a .NET backend architecture.

    • Mobials inc.

      Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
      Intermediate software developer

      Software developer who progressed from the Junior level to Tech Lead over the span of 3 years. Built features in the backend domain with PHP, and in the frontend domain with VueJS. Contributed to and led development efforts for several tools in the AutoVerify suite of automotive research tools, each of which receives millions of impressions per week. Gained deep knowledge of a complex distributed application architecture that was built using message queues and CQRS. Embraced a culture of well-tested, modular code that is responsibility-separated. Contributed to a shift from a monolithic to a microservices-driven architecture. Show less

    • Autoverify

      Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
      Software development manager

      Leading a team of software engineers to build tools for the AutoVerify suite, which see millions of impressions every month. Leading technical planning on the PHP backend and VueJS frontend, and acting as a technical interface with the rest of the organization. Have directly managed and mentored engineers of all levels. Involved in hiring for the Technology Department. Led technical initiatives across teams for the Technology department as a whole.

    • Deep breathe

      Jan 2021 - now
      Data engineer

      Created a relational data model for medical imaging video data that is used to train a neural network that classifies pathology in medical images. Also, aided in development of a pipeline built in python that extracts annotated video clips and stores their meta data in the relational data store, for use in training the model against specific tranches of clips. Author in a published article in Diagnostics.

    • Slack

      Apr 2022 - now
      Senior software engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Machine learning injection

      Deep atlas
      Aug 2025
    • Advanced product management

      Product faculty
      Aug 2021
      View certificate certificate