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Engineering With Alex

DevOps, Site Reliability, and Software Engineering

Who I am

I'm a passionate and gregarious engineer who enjoys tackling a problem head-on

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As an engineer.

I feel strongly about conquering the industry's difficult problems with programming, automation, and critical thinking.

My domain of expertise ranges from hosting APIs and applications in a highly-scalable fashion to building and designing services to tackle novel problems.

My full resume can be found here. At a glance, my skills are...

Programming Languages: Python, C++, Java, GoLang, Kotlin

Configuration Management: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Vagrant, Packer, Helm

Operating Systems: *nix, MacOS

Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes

Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean

Database Systems: Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB

CI Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Skillset

As a human.

I love programming, reading, hiking, camping, surfing, snorkeling, and being outside as much as possible.

I also love to travel, practice muay thai, and adventure to the best of my capabilities.

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Experience

DevOps

Building fast and reliable CI/CD pipelines for all of your application's needs.

Site Reliability

Designing, automating, and monitoring the most complex infrastructure tasks.

Software Engineering

Architecting and implementing custom API's to solve business needs.

Resume

My full resume can be found here

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My Bookshelf

I really enjoy reading. Some technical, some sci-fi, some philosophical. Some new, some very old. Here are some of my recent reads. Feel free to readalong with me.

The Storyteller

Dave Grohl tells an amalgomation of stories from his life and how those shaped him.

Maltese Falcon

A Chicago-Noir style story of a murder, a mystery, and an expensive sculpture.

The Endurance

A harrowing story about how a captain faced all odds in the Antarctic to get his crew home safely.

Clean Architecture

A technical guide to writing clean, scalable, and extensible code.

The Book Of Kubernetes

A technical, yet understandable, book on kubernetes.

Man's Search For Meaning

A true story of how a Holocaust survivor made it against all odds.