Alec Warner is a Staff Software Engineer with 20 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently based in San Jose. He blends deep SRE and DevOps expertise with backend engineering and performance-focused infrastructure ownership, having led reliability and observability efforts across startups and large firms. Alec has a long history at Google spanning system administration to customer reliability and now brings that production-hardened mindset to roles at Bridgewater, Panther, Big Sur AI, and Google again. He contributes to open source maintenance—helping modernize Gentoo's Portage Python codebase—which reflects a pragmatic focus on code health and cross-cutting improvements. Known for improving performance, deployments, and monitoring end-to-end, he pairs hands-on coding with roadmap and operational leadership. Alec’s background in corporate-scale identity and email systems and recent work integrating payments and e-commerce platforms shows a rare mix of low-level systems rigor and product-facing feature delivery.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Michigan State University
Contributions:12 commits, 18 PRs, 3 pushes in 13 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on code maintenance and modernization within the Gentoo Portage package management system. Their commits involved refactoring code by removing unnecessary inheritance from object in Python 3. They addressed pylint warnings and fixed issues, improving the codebase's quality and adherence to Python best practices. These changes were applied across multiple files, indicating a focus on overall code health.
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