Alex
Tuppen
Full stack developer
Hello and welcome to my website, I'm a full stack developer based in London, UK. When I'm not building the next generation of web applications I am travelling the world with my girlfriend or experimenting in the kitchen in my never ending quest to make the tastiest meals for the least effort. If you would like to get in touch please connect on LinkedIn or Instagram.
Recipes
I enjoy the challenge of creating recipes that are as easy to cook as possible. They are not complicated or fancy but they do use ingredients in standard UK supermarket package sizes and generate as little washing up as possible. You can see all of my recipes on the recipes page or click the card below to go straight to my favourite recipe. Please let me know what you think if you cook one of them!
Blog
I am also trying to improve my technical writing and document the most interesting technical projects I have worked on. You can read my latest blog post by clicking on the card below or see all posts by going to the blog page. If you have any feedback on any of the posts I'd love to hear it.
Experience
I started my career in IT but rapidly discovered that scripting was far more interesting than turning computers off and on again. PowerShell scripting soon led to C# and .Net desktop applications, but the world of custom MSIs and WPF felt constrained so I taught myself JavaScript and React and I haven't looked back. My latest/current role is displayed below, to see my past roles please click here.
Senior full stack engineer
Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) March 2023 - August 2024 London - PermanentLead application engineer on a small team building web applications enabling the entire UK private healthcare industry to submit data for reporting. This role has afforded me the opportunity to significantly improve my DevOps skills with responsibility for all Azure DevOps pipelines. Both the maintenance of existing GUI pipelines and the design of new pipelines using YAML to allow for shared components between pipelines and the benefits of source control. Microsoft Bicep Infrastructure as Code was also used to create and configure Azure Resource Groups, App Service Plans, App Services, Storage Accounts and a Container Registry. Projects included the creation of a new REST API based on Fastify, chosen for its performance and encapsulation, offering secured endpoints that included fetching reports from PowerBI and Azure Storage Account Shared Access Signature token generation. As well as customised login pages for Azure Active Directory B2C and extensive frontend work with React and Material UI. Day to day tasks involved solving the most challenging technical problems faced by the team in frontend and backend code as well as in infrastructure and ensuring everyone maintained a high standard of code with a special emphasis on security and confidentiality due to the pseudonymised healthcare data the company handles. Duties also included managing technical debt, working with the infrastructure team to manage new and existing infrastructure, and assisting with external penetration testing.
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Azure
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Azure DevOps
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Node.JS
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Fastify
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Git
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NPM
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Yarn
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ESLint
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Prettier
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React
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JavaScript
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TypeScript
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HTML
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CSS
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Bicep
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YAML