Alen Komljen
Staff Platform Engineer
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Top SchoolAlen Komljen is a Staff Platform Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps workflows, currently shaping platform reliability at Faire. Based in Sarajevo, he has led large migrations to Kubernetes and Docker, designed production clusters on AWS using kops and spot instances, and automated CI/CD with Helm and Jenkins to drive repeatable, low-cost deployments. A longtime practitioner of distributed storage and cloud ops, he has designed and tuned Ceph clusters and re-architected legacy systems for OpenStack and cloud environments. He organizes the Cloud Native Computing Sarajevo meetup and writes a technical blog on Kubernetes and cloud native patterns, reflecting his commitment to community knowledge-sharing. His open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to an Elasticsearch operator, demonstrating an ability to improve stateful operator behavior and cluster configuration in production-grade projects. Colleagues value him for combining practical cost optimizations with deep operational expertise across stateful and stateless systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Information Technologies, University "Džemal Bijedić" in Mostar
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Github Skills (14)
amazon-elasticsearch10
deployer10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
elasticsearchquery10
elasticsearch10
go10
web-deploy10
aws-elasticsearch10
web-deployment10
kubernetes-pods10
elasticsearch-api10
operator10
api-design9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
upmc-enterprises/elasticsearch-operator
Nov 2017 - May 2019
manages elasticsearch clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alen primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and configuration of the Elasticsearch operator. Their contributions included adding features like the ability to set the Elasticsearch cluster name, specifying master node volume sizes, and incorporating custom annotations for deployments. Furthermore, the user demonstrated proficiency in maintaining and modifying the operator's codebase, with clear evidence of involvement in the integration of new features and merging code changes. The user also made a critical Typo fix.
clusterskubernetesoperatorelasticsearch
komljen/docker-filebeat
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
beatselasticfilebeat
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