Ales Pour
Software Engineer at Bonitoo.io
Czechia
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Top SchoolAles Pour is a software engineer based in Czechia with seven years focused on backend development and a long history in QA and systems engineering. He currently builds Go-based time-series features at Bonitoo.io and has contributed notable backend work to major open-source projects in the InfluxData ecosystem, adding ServiceNow alerting to Kapacitor and experimental geospatial functions to Flux. His background spans C++, Java, and C# with deep experience in performance testing and SOA management from a decade at HPE and earlier roles, giving him a pragmatic, systems-level approach to reliability and integration. An outspoken skeptic of overly complex enterprise tooling, he prefers pragmatic, testable solutions and has a track record of upgrading configs, security models, and APIs in production-grade datastores. Trained in control engineering at Czech Technical University, he combines rigorous systems thinking with hands-on backend engineering for observability and time-series platforms.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Control Engineering, Control Engineering at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
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Github Skills (26)
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
databases10
time-series10
go10
api10
influxdb10
authentication9
monitoring9
json9
user-authentication9
sql9
data-integration9
sql-database9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 21 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ales implemented experimental geospatial functionality within the Flux scripting language, specifically focusing on a "geo" package. This included the creation of built-in GIS functions, S2 cell ID handling, and filtering functionalities like `gridFilter` and `strictFilter`. The changes involved modifying the `geo.flux` file to define builtins and functions. The user refactored the code, renaming functions and introducing AWS Athena and SQL Server support, showcasing expertise in SQL and database integration.
databasedatabasesinfluxdbscripting-language
influxdata/kapacitor
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Open source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time series data
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 13 reviews, 12 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ales primarily focused on implementing backend features related to ServiceNow integration within the Kapacitor framework. They added support for sending alerts to ServiceNow, including the necessary API interactions and data transformation. Further contributions included code style improvements and bug fixes. The user also switched to the event API for ServiceNow and added support for additional information elements.
monitoringtime-serieskapacitor
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