Alexander Dean
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Full-stack engineer · UK

Alexander Dean.

Five years shipping production web platforms. Comfortable owning a feature from Postgres schema through Spring Boot API into a React / TypeScript UI. Generalist by preference — most at home where product meets data meets interface.

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— Stack

LanguagesTypeScript · JavaScript · Java · SQL
FrontendReact · Next.js · Redux · GraphQL · D3
BackendNode.js · Spring Boot · REST · GraphQL
DataPostgreSQL · MySQL · Oracle · Supabase
Cloud / InfraAWS · Kubernetes · Docker · Jenkins
ObservabilityDynatrace RUM · Apica · Custom metrics
DesignFigma · Balsamiq · Lucid

— Selected projects

  • 01
    AI Learning Platform
    Next.js · Supabase · Multi-LLM

    Students upload course material; the platform generates question banks at a chosen difficulty. An adaptive algorithm tracks time-on-question and error rate, resurfacing weak areas spaced-repetition-style. LLM router with automatic fallback across providers. Social layer for sharing questions and banks with friends via Supabase Auth and row-level permissions.

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  • 02
    Client Hosting Portal
    Next.js 16 · TypeScript · Stripe

    A private portal for freelance hosting clients — live service status with 30-day uptime bars, Stripe Customer Portal billing, and a terminal-style login experience. Password-gated via a Next.js 16 proxy with a hardened cookie-token auth layer.

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  • 03
    B2B SaaS Boilerplate
    Next.js · PostgreSQL · Stripe

    Personal multi-tenant SaaS starter — subdomain routing via Next.js middleware, tenant-scoped Postgres rows, organisation-level auth, Stripe billing. A base I made for builds to compress MVP delivery time.

  • 04
    Hackathons
    Various

    Regular participant — most notably a check-in / check-out safety tool for social workers, auto-alerting admins if a worker doesn't check out on time with live location on an admin dashboard. Blank repo to working demo in a weekend.

— GitHub activity

— The full picture

Five years,
two enterprises,
and a handful of solo builds.

Companies, roles, and all the context are available on request.

hello@alexdean.co.uk