Ales 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.
7 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
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
Contributions: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.
Open source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time series data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions: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.
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