Alex Lawrence is a software developer with knowledge and experience in architecture, automation, backend, frontend, lecturing, operations and testing. Since 2014, his focus lies on full stack web application development with JavaScript as language and Node.js as backend runtime. As part of a software architecture, he applies and implement CQRS and/or Event Sourcing wherever it makes sense. For the frontend, he works with many different libraries and tools, including the obligatory use of HTML and (S)CSS. Most recently, he started to work with React and redux. Also, he is learning more about the theory and concepts of Functional Programming. Since a few years, he is a strong supporter for Free/Libre Open Source Software.