Alex Atkinson
DevScOps Specialist at Newforma
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Atkinson is a DevScOps specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, automated platforms across cloud and hosted environments. Starting in Microsoft stacks and moving to Linux in 2009, he evolved into a DevOps/DevSecOps practitioner who has launched global, high-availability platforms (including a zero-downtime site for Mitsubishi/Motors) and cut infrastructure spend materially through automation and architectural changes. He blends platform reliability, security evangelism, and developer-centric UX to create self-healing systems that rarely require late-night fire drills. Alex has led DevOps transformations end-to-end—standing up disciplines, compliance committees, and CI/CD workflows—and saved recurring vendor OPEX through thoughtful re-architecture. Based in Toronto, he pairs pragmatic critical thinking with a track record of measurable impact across startups and enterprise teams. A little-known strength: he consistently focuses on quality-of-life improvements that scale team productivity as much as system robustness.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Specialist, Computer Systems Administration, Information Systems Specialist, Computer Systems Administration at CompuCollege School of Business
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Github Skills (114)
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terraform9
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electron9
typescript9
graph9
hashicorp8
publish8
aiohttp-client8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AlexAtkinson/github-action-gitops-autover
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Automatically determine the semantic version based on merge history.
Contributions:33 releases, 12 commits, 59 PRs in 15 days
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AlexAtkinson/github-tester
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 52 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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