Alek Merani
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlek 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
2008, 2008 at Mithibai College, MumbaiMaster of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinAssociate of Arts, Associate of Arts at Houston City College
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
aws-lambda10
apollo-server10
serverless-framework10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
dynamodb9
javascript9
amazon-dynamodb9
nodejs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless-graphql
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
apolloaws-appsyncgraphqlserverless
amerani/hitch-api
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:102 commits, 1 branch in 4 months
apigraphql-apipointhitchgraphql
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