# Alex Collins

> Principal Software Engineer at Intuit

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexcollins

A technical architect and leader with ten years of commercial experience working with low latency, high volume, and high availability financial transactions systems; trading systems and reporting applications for the largest UK and International bookmakers. First class masters degree with honors in computer science. Open Source maintainer and ex-project lead for Argo CD and Argo Workflows. Wrote the original proof-of-concept for Numaflow. Blogger and conference presenter.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2019 – Present | Mountain View, California
Architect for Developer Productivity. Including (but not limited to), Intuit build platform, centralized test reporting platform, service delivery (Argo CD & Rollouts), cloud workspace platform, cloud coding agent platform. Project lead for Argo CD.

### Global Software Architect (EMEA) @ Intuit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Architect for Open Banking UK initiative. Architect for last-mile solutions for QuickBooks Online (UK and France).

### Technical Architect @ HM Revenue & Customs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | London
Technical Architect for Making Tax Digital (contract)

### Technical Lead Slots & Casino Backend @ Gamesys
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | London
Technical lead for online gaming platform. Architect of Kubernetes gaming platform.

### Team Lead, Server Supported Gaming @ Inspired Gaming Group
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Team lead for casino platform.

### Senior Java Developer @ Inspired Gaming Group
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Working on Inspired's terminal and server products.

### Senior Engineer @ Covestor
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Complete re-skin of customer facing website including implementation of CMS.

### Technical Lead @ OpenBet
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
- Directly responsible the systems of seven UK and International bookmakers
- Matrix managing a team of eight developers, prioritisation and delegation

### Senior Developer @ OpenBet
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
- First point of contact for two e-gaming providers
- Developed multi-threaded transactional systems designed to process financial transactions in environments subject to large and unpredictable fluctuations in load

### Solutions Architect @ OpenBet
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
- Full project development lifecycle, requirements capture, round-table discussion with business analysts and stake holders

### Software Developer @ OpenBet
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006
- Author of the OpenBet marketing suite for customer acquisition and retention
- Developed and supported:
 -- Web sites (HTML, AJAX, JS and CSS)
 -- Back-office applications
 -- Call centre
 -- Telephony systems
 -- Event hospitality
 -- Retail point-of-sale

### Student Programmer @ Kazoo 3D
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000
Researched into computer graphic compression/transmission and developed network software prototypes using Java JNI


## Education
### MComp 1st Class Hons in Computer Science
The University of Sheffield

### 4 A Levels - Math in Further Math, Physics, Econmics
Wells Cathedral School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexecollins

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Last updated: 2026-04-12