Alexander Bainbridge
Technical Lead | Cloud-Native Architect | AI-Driven Engineer
Alexander Bainbridge
📍 Pontypool, South Wales
📧 abainbridge89@gmail.com • 📱 07984 682330
🔗 LinkedIn • GitHub • Dev Blog
🚀 About Me
| **Technical Lead | Cloud-Native Architect | AI-Driven Engineer** |
I’m a technical lead and polyglot engineer with 10+ years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, leading high-performing teams, and delivering AI-driven innovation. Passionate about solving hard problems, mentoring engineers, and architecting scalable, future-ready systems.
🛠️ Tech Stack
💼 Professional Experience
Clinithink — Technical Lead
Jun 2023 – Present | Bridgend, Hybrid
- Architected and delivered CustomerHub, re-platforming a legacy .NET/Azure app into HubSpot CMS + React + Azure Functions, cutting deployment cycles by 75%.
- Built BuildTools — a PowerShell cmdlet suite and reusable Azure DevOps pipeline templates to standardise pipelines across the business.
- Led ProjectCipher, an AI-driven experiment using ML.NET + TypeScript + React to evaluate one-shot full-stack generation.
- Mentored engineers and drove psychological safety, boosting delivery velocity and collaboration.
Clinithink — Software Engineer
Jun 2021 – Jun 2023 | Bridgend, Hybrid
- Delivered CLiX Revenue, a Python/Django/React app surfacing NLP-powered insights; became the engineering benchmark at Clinithink.
- Created Clinithink’s first CI/CD pipeline using Terraform + Azure DevOps, cutting QA cycle times from days to hours.
- Partnered with product owners to define features, improve agile processes, and coach peers on modern engineering practices.
Raytheon — Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 | Cheltenham
- Built an employee portal using React, Node.js, MySQL, Liquibase, and Docker, deployed via Jenkins + Kubernetes + Helm.
- Improved test coverage and quality using Jest, Cypress, and Cucumber.
- Mentored junior engineers and influenced DevOps adoption across teams.
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence — Software Engineer
Aug 2016 – Nov 2020 | London & Cheltenham
- Built a distributed ETL framework in Python, integrating Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and NiFi to automate data processing.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines via Ansible and delivered robust testing suites using Pytest.
- Provided 24/7 support for critical client systems, resolving high-severity incidents under strict SLAs.
🌟 Highlight Projects
| Project | Tech | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| ProjectVelour | FastAPI • ComfyUI • Stable Diffusion • React | AI-driven platform for personal expression through tattoos and nail art. |
| Spelltail | Unity • C# • LLMs | A Snake x Scrabble mashup with AI-driven story generation. Devlog |
| ProjectCipher | ML.NET • TypeScript • React | Experimental AI-assisted full-stack code generation. ProjectCipher |
| BuildTools | PowerShell • Azure DevOps • Python | A cmdlet + pipeline toolkit that standardised devops practices. |
📜 Certifications
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Oracle Certified Java SE 7 Programmer (OCA)
- Mental Health First Aider
🎓 Education
University of South Wales — BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development, 2:1 (2012–2016)
Pontypool College — HND Graphic Design (2005–2008)