Alex Bristow

• Write performant, reliable and accessible Typescript/React code for the Ocado eCommerce web platform used by millions of users worldwide.
• Communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, designers, product managers and stakeholders.
• Provided guidance, mentoring and code reviews for front end engineers.
• Led development and successful rollout of 'Recipes' feature across all international Ocado Smart Platform retailers, reaching millions of users. Implemented with focus on SEO, accessibility and internationalization best practices.
• Successfully orchestrated platform-wide migration from Universal Analytics to GA4, completing transition ahead of deadline with zero tracking disruption.

• Design and develop observability tools and dashboards that provide Sky and NBCU leadership teams with real-time insights into customer experience and viewership metrics.
• Write clean, accessible and performant Typescript, React and React Native code.
• Led project to create a web & iOS app that provides Sky employees with realtime viewership and video quality for all streaming propositions. This contributed to the successful launches of the ‘Peacock’, ‘Sky Glass’ and ‘SkyShowtime’ propositions.
• Created boilerplate product to spin up new React projects using company best practices that was used across the business, saving hundreds of hours of development time.
• As a product owner, I was highly organised, collaborated closely in a cross functional team and engaged stakeholders regularly.

Before working as a software engineer, I had a career in food retail buying.

• Negotiated trading terms & cost prices for all snacking categories worth c. £120m in retail sales.
• Delivered seven figure cost savings and launched dozens of SPAR own label products.
• Managed and mentored direct reports.
• Learned web development to create tools to improve internal processes, and I enjoyed it so much that I changed careers.