I'm Alex Knowles

Aloe exists to help you grow a better relationship with money. We are currently building a mindful money management app that provides a safe and secure place to reflect on your money past, monitor your money present, and plan your money future – growing along the way.

As the sole director/founder, I am responsible for all aspects of the business – from defining our vision, mission, and strategy to delivering products people want. With our strategy laid out, I’m currently focused on designing and developing our mindful money management app.

Senior Software Engineer
Senior Leader and technical contributor responsible for, and owner of, all UK application infrastructure – multiple Software as a Service (SaaS) products. Resident Azure subject matter expert (SME).

Senior Software Developer
Technical contributor, mentor, and line manager for multiple development teams. Responsible for defining and delivering application features, coding standards, and educating development teams on best practices and new technologies.

Web Designer
Technical contributor specialising in UI/UX design and implementation. Responsible for application look and feel, as well as visualising client requirement for the wider development team.

Trainee Software Developer
Technical contributor in training. Responsible for application maintenance and testing, including migrating legacy code from VB.NET to C#, as well as providing first line support to users.

After attending a GameJam at the end of 2011, a few of us from our randomly selected team decided to keep in touch and collaborate on building games to fill our portfolios. We connected with a few other young and enthusiastic students and started a small game studio (total of 6 of us).

The studio worked on commission pieces and internal games / prototypes. We also participated in GameJams!

My primary role was as a developer, building games and prototypes in Flash, Unity and Unreal (UDK).