Alek P
Sr. Manager, Cloud Engineering at ConnectWise
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlek P is a senior cloud engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on experience in storage, backup and disaster recovery, currently leading Cloud Engineering at ConnectWise. He brings deep systems-level expertise from long-term contributions to OpenZFS and illumos—work that includes implementing zpool sync and scrub pause/resume and improving recursive dataset teardown—so he’s fluent in kernel and filesystem internals as well as cloud architectures. Previously he led cloud engineering at Axcient and architected experimental cloud storage layouts and ZFS performance tuning at Datto, bridging operational support and core engineering. Alek pairs that technical depth with management training (MS in Engineering Management) and a computational mathematics background, giving him a data-driven approach to platform reliability. He also explores adjacent domains like machine learning, security, and IoT, which informs pragmatic automation and observability choices. Based in North Carolina, he’s the kind of leader who still contributes to core open-source projects while scaling enterprise cloud services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Engineering with a focus in Management, Master's degree Engineering with a focus in Management at University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (19)
filesystem10
openzfs10
unix10
system-programming10
os-development10
c1110
c1710
data-storage10
system10
zfs10
operating-system10
command-line-interface9
debugging9
command-line9
cli9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Mar 2012 - Nov 2019
An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alek contributed to the `illumos-gate` project, an open-source Unix operating system. Their commits focused on minor bug fixes and improvements to existing code within the `usr/src/cmd` and `usr/src/uts` directories. These changes include addressing issues in the format startup and IPMI drivers. The user also removed old debugging code from the mcs module and made improvements to the SMB server.
operating-systemunixillumosos
openzfs/zfs
Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 16 commits, 28 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alek primarily contributed to the core functionality and internal workings of the OpenZFS project. Their work included implementing and refining features like the zpool sync command and scrub pause/resume functionality, indicating a focus on data management and storage synchronization. They made improvements to internal processes such as the unlinked drain and the handling of recursive dataset destruction. The user demonstrated expertise in system-level programming and file system operations within a complex storage system.
freebsdlinuxopenzfssystem-softwarefile-system
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