Alex Bortok
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Bortok is a product manager and former solutions architect specializing in network test, emulation, and observability, currently leading Ixia product efforts at Keysight from Mountain View. Over a decade he launched the Keysight Elastic Network Generator (KENG), drove the Open Traffic Generator (OTG) API go-to-market and cut customer time-to-value for OTG to under 10 minutes while coordinating adoption with four major network equipment manufacturers. He combines product strategy and financial rigor—MVP definition, ROI/TAM modeling and cross-stakeholder approvals—with hands-on engineering leadership to ship complex NPI programs. An active open-source contributor and co-founder of Netreplica, his work on the widely used containerlab project added structured topology exports and a flexible gomplate-based templating system to simplify container-based networking labs. He also contributes to industry education through NANOG and draws on deep operational experience building large-scale data center and hybrid-cloud networks.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
json10
code-templates10
dockerce10
container10
docker10
go10
cpp-templates10
python-templates10
dockers10
app-templates10
html-templates10
networking9
yaml9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
srl-labs/containerlab
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
container-based networking labs
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 33 commits, 5 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the containerlab project's functionality by implementing topology data exports. They added features to generate JSON files containing node and link information, incorporating configuration details and allowing for template-based export customization. The user refactored the export process, migrating from graph-based data to a more structured topology data format, and integrated the use of gomplate for template processing. This work culminated in the introduction of a flexible templating system to facilitate various export formats.
containerlabsdncrpdceosdocker
open-traffic-generator/otg-examples
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Open Traffic Generator examples available to everyone. It's a great way to get started.
Contributions:30 reviews, 344 commits, 99 PRs in 9 months
ixia-cnetopscontainerlabnetwork-automationget-started
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