Alex Chircop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlex Chircop is a seasoned technology leader and architect with over 30 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platform engineering teams. As founder, CTO/CEO of Ondat (StorageOS), he designed the core dataplane, patented IP, and led production-ready cloud-native storage solutions that enabled stateful workloads, culminating in Ondat’s acquisition by Akamai in 2023. Now at Akamai as Chief Architect and Chief Product Architect for Connected Cloud, he shapes the architecture and strategy for the company’s cloud platform and scalable infrastructure tooling. He is a leading figure in the Cloud Native computing community—co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG, lead author of the Cloud Native Storage Landscape whitepaper, and a current CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member. Based in Milton Keynes, UK, he has built globally distributed teams on multi-hundred-million-dollar programs, and was honored with the Chop Wood Carry Water award at KubeCon 2022.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (55)
storage10
cloudnative10
utm10
persistent-storage9
persistent8
docker-image7
intelligent6
zeal6
docker6
data-mesh6
dragonfly6
sandbox6
ceph5
letter5
netbox5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cncf/tag-storage
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
🗄CNCF Storage TAG
Contributions:2 reviews, 49 commits, 46 PRs in 5 years 10 months
persistent-storageutmcncfstorage
chira001/toc
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
⚖️Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
committeetoc
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