Alek Hrycaiko
Staff Software Engineer at Elation Health
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlek Hrycaiko is a Staff Software Engineer in Vancouver with 11 years of full-stack experience and a strong focus on microservices, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and monitoring. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Elation Health and previously built and managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform while delivering backend features in Django at Sokanu. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, Alek blends hands-on coding (Node.js, Python, TypeScript, Rails) with systems thinking to ship reliable production services. He favors observability and practical automation, and his background in both computer science and biological/mathematical studies hints at a data-minded, methodical approach to problem solving. Notably, he signs his GitHub as “the dog in the photo,” reflecting a down-to-earth personality behind strong technical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
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Github Skills (151)
parser10
package-management10
testing10
automation10
javascript-api10
js-plugin10
charts10
chromium10
continuous-delivery10
rabbitmq10
firefox10
helm10
azure-devops10
pipeline10
orb10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
UBC-CPSC319/team-6
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:50 PRs, 156 pushes, 24 branches in 2 months
sokanu/spylib
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Sokanu's Python library that shares abstract logic across our services.
Contributions:26 releases, 29 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 1 month
python-librarypythonpython3logiccpython
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