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I am Alex Dalitz, a software architect and engineering leader with a track record of helping startups scale and extend their systems. I typically operate at CTO level with early-stage companies, but I also work with larger organisations. I excel at motivating, mentoring and guiding software teams, embracing agile practices with honesty and transparency at the core. I am a strong believer in automation and test-driven development; I build robust CI/CD pipelines (often on Kubernetes) with automated testing at the heart. I enjoy building scalable data stores, distributed systems and real-time analytics.…I am Alex Dalitz, a software architect and engineering leader with a track record of helping startups scale and extend their systems. I typically operate at CTO level with early-stage companies, but I also work with larger organisations. I excel at motivating, mentoring and guiding software teams, embracing agile practices with honesty and transparency at the core. I am a strong believer in automation and test-driven development; I build robust CI/CD pipelines (often on Kubernetes) with automated testing at the heart. I enjoy building scalable data stores, distributed systems and real-time analytics.

Alex Dalitz

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I am Alex Dalitz, a software architect and engineering leader with a track record of helping startups scale and extend their systems. I typically operate at CTO level with early-stage companies, but I also work with larger organisations. I excel at motivating, mentoring and guiding software teams, embracing agile practices with honesty and transparency at the core. I am a strong believer in automation and test-driven development; I build robust CI/CD pipelines (often on Kubernetes) with automated testing at the heart. I enjoy building scalable data stores, distributed systems and real-time analytics.…I am Alex Dalitz, a software architect and engineering leader with a track record of helping startups scale and extend their systems. I typically operate at CTO level with early-stage companies, but I also work with larger organisations. I excel at motivating, mentoring and guiding software teams, embracing agile practices with honesty and transparency at the core. I am a strong believer in automation and test-driven development; I build robust CI/CD pipelines (often on Kubernetes) with automated testing at the heart. I enjoy building scalable data stores, distributed systems and real-time analytics.

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I am Alex Dalitz, a software architect and engineering leader with a track record of helping startups scale and extend their systems. I typically operate at CTO level with early-stage companies, but I also work with larger organisations. I excel at motivating, mentoring and guiding software teams, embracing agile practices with honesty and transparency at the core.

I am a strong believer in automation and test-driven development; I build robust CI/CD pipelines (often on Kubernetes) with automated testing at the heart. I enjoy building scalable data stores, distributed systems and real-time analytics.

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Work Experience

Director at Caerketton Tech

December 1, 2013 - Present

Director at Caerketton Tech, a software development consultancy. Led delivery across multiple engagements, including rebuilding Access from Ruby on Rails to Java/Spring with Elastic and PostgreSQL; designed a new real-time data store for Stockopedia; developed MODL language for NUM Technology; implemented a scalable networking layer for Constructive Labs' distributed VR platform; designed and operated the UK's first ticketless train travel pilot (multipass.co.uk) for GTV/Abellio; maintained Dnsruby and contributed to open-source projects.

Co-Founder & CTO at Jove Technology

August 1, 2021 - October 16, 2025

Co-founded an InsurTech startup. Built the technology, assembled and led a team, and helped achieve a £2.5m valuation with £600k investment.

CTO at NUM Technology Limited

July 1, 2019 - October 16, 2025

CTO for NUM Technology, building a platform on the global DNS. Led the development from the ground up, shaping the architecture around Kafka as the event bus and a set of distributed micro-services.

Senior Developer at Nominet UK

November 1, 2013 - October 16, 2025

Core contributor to Nominet's Turing system (precursor to NTX), storing billions of queries with real-time search across scalable storage. OpenDNSSEC contributor; author of dnsruby; and dnsjnio. Led the Middleware Security Layer and mentored teams; built monitoring for DNS/DNSSEC operations.

Senior Software Engineer at Symbian

June 1, 2003 - October 16, 2025

Designed and implemented the Sync Data Store, the backend of the SyncML system.

Senior Software Engineer at Psion

September 1, 2002 - October 16, 2025

Led software development for the netPad, the first handheld, wireless, fully touchscreen device.

Software Engineer at OxIM

September 1, 1998 - October 16, 2025

Programmed transputers in OCCAM, contributing to early robotics software.