Summary
Alex Adriaanse is a seasoned senior software engineer and technical founder with 25+ years of experience spanning software engineering, database development, and system administration, and six years focused on SRE/DevOps, GitOps, and distributed systems. He has built and led engineering teams, automated large-scale cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Terraform) and created fast, repeatable database cloning and deployment tooling that scales to terabytes of PostgreSQL data. At Oseberg he shipped production Flink-on-Kubernetes integrations, data pipelines using Scala/PostGIS/Kafka, and end-to-end CI/CD and on-call practices that transformed operational maturity. Currently at Datadog and active as a sound/video engineer in local churches, he pairs enterprise observability experience with hands-on operational instincts. Comfortable across the full stack—from hardware and OS to browser and network—he’s as effective writing performant code as he is designing resilient platforms and developer self-service. His blend of startup founder grit, formal CS training from Caltech, and an MBA gives him a rare mix of technical depth and product/organizational judgement.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Revius Lyceum
California Institute of Technology
Hillsdale High School
M.B.A. Business Administration Entrepreneurship, M.B.A. Business Administration Entrepreneurship at University of Oklahoma - Price College of Business
Dutch, English