Alena Prokharchyk
Principal Software Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlena Prokharchyk is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems and driving engineering excellence at Apple. She has a strong open-source and community governance background, serving on the CNCF Board and previously on its Technical Oversight Committee, and earlier contributing to Apache CloudStack governance. Her career spans hands-on engineering and leadership roles at Rancher Labs and Citrix, where she progressed from software engineer to principal and senior management positions focused on distributed infrastructure. Based in Mountain View, she blends product-driven architecture with pragmatic delivery, mentoring teams to ship resilient, production-grade software. An early career background in QA and a formal CS degree from Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics give her a practical, systems-oriented perspective that informs both code and process decisions. She is known for bridging community standards with enterprise needs, helping translate open-source innovation into robust commercial solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, Russian
Github Skills (140)
container-management10
rancher10
scheduling10
ember10
orchestration10
mesos10
catalog10
ecosystem10
dns-record10
docker-build10
api10
golang10
cli10
lightning10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alena1108/rancher
Apr 2015 - Dec 2019
A Platform for Operating Docker in Production
Contributions:434 pushes, 470 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 8 months
containersin-productiondockeroperatingproduction
alena1108/cattle
Jan 2015 - Apr 2019
Infrastructure orchestration platform
Contributions:3 releases, 2348 pushes, 821 branches in 4 years 3 months
terraforminfrastructureorchestrationdevops
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