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.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, B.Eng., Electrical Engineering at University of Victoria
H-Store Distributed Main Memory OLTP Database System
Role in this project:
Back-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.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 comment, 5 issues in 9 months
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Alex Bell - Senior Security Consultant at Tetrel Security