Alex Bell

Senior Security Consultant at Tetrel Security

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Alex Bell is a senior security consultant and software engineer with 14 years of experience building low-level security tooling, agents, and embedded systems. He has led teams and shipped production Linux security sensors and process contextualization engines, contributing to integration work at Elastic after developing an eBPF-based agent at Cmd. His background spans reverse engineering, malware analysis and automation at Cisco Talos, and firmware/kernel development for Qualcomm platforms, giving him a rare blend of offensive research and systems-level engineering. On open-source projects he has contributed to backend database internals like H-Store’s deferred query execution, demonstrating comfort with complex concurrency and execution models. Based in Vancouver, he combines hands-on C and eBPF expertise with leadership experience guiding cross-functional security engineering teams.
code14 years of coding experience
job9 years of employment as a software developer
bookB.Eng., Electrical Engineering, B.Eng., Electrical Engineering at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (9)

javas10
databases10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
java10
database10
concurrency9
performance-optimization8

Programming languages (1)

Java

Github contributions (2)

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apavlo/h-store

Apr 2012 - May 2012

H-Store Distributed Main Memory OLTP Database System
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on implementing features related to deferred query execution within the H-Store database system. This included modifying the `PartitionExecutor` class to handle deferred queries and creating a `PartitionExecutorDeferredQueue`. The user also made changes to the `Procedure` and `SQLStmt` classes to support the deferred query functionality and created a new interface `Deferred`. The user added JUnit test case.
memorytransactionalolapdatabase-systemdatabase
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 comment, 5 issues in 9 months
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Alex Bell - Senior Security Consultant at Tetrel Security