Alek Merani is a Member of Technical Staff with 12 years of experience modernizing control planes and developer platforms for Enterprise SaaS and infrastructure startups. Currently contributing to CockroachDB Cloud, he previously shaped developer experience and reporting platforms at Qualtrics, migrating front-end stacks and building CI/CD and static asset pipelines. His background spans backend systems, serverless GraphQL work (including Apollo and DynamoDB integrations), and communication platforms, demonstrating strength in both refactoring legacy systems and adopting emerging technologies. Trained with an MS in Artificial Intelligence from UT Austin and a BS in Computer Science, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical production engineering. Alek is committed to lifelong learning—his GitHub bio simply reads "human learning"—and prefers tackling subtle platform-level problems that improve developer velocity and system reliability.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at The University of Texas at Austin
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alek primarily focused on migrating and refactoring the backend of a GraphQL application. Their contributions included migrating to a new Apollo Server version, modifying DynamoDB integrations, and adjusting serverless configurations. They addressed several bugs, including fixing linting errors and handling empty responses from external APIs. Furthermore, they also made changes to the schema and handler files.
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