Alen Krmelj
Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlen Krmelj is a Staff Software Engineer and cloud infrastructure leader with over two decades of experience building high-availability, low-latency systems for trading and blockchain platforms. He led the Cloud Infrastructure team at Bitstamp (now part of Robinhood), architecting secure, scalable AWS-based platforms using services like EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFormation and Lambda while mentoring a team of experienced engineers. His background spans DevOps and systems leadership across fintech and adtech, with hands-on expertise in on-prem clusters, BGP, virtualization, and performance-tuned web and database stacks. A part-time Toptal freelancer and self-described "surfing clouds" enthusiast, he combines practical engineering with a taste for interesting, challenging projects. Known for operational rigor and pragmatic automation, he moves complex systems to production reliably under demanding latency and availability constraints.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty for Computer ScienceGimnazija Škofja Loka
English, Latin, Slovenian
Github Skills (53)
api10
trading9
bitcoin9
crypto9
ethereum9
exchange9
cryptocurrency9
php8
binance8
trading-bot8
cryptocurrencies8
merchant7
javascript7
filesystem7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
krmeljalen/aws-opsworks-codedeploy
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
krmeljalen/aws-opsworks-example-app
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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