Alex Bulankou
Senior Engineering Manager, GCP Kubernetes Engine at Google
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Bulankou is a senior engineering manager specializing in GCP and Kubernetes with over a decade of experience leading complex cloud, infrastructure and developer-experience teams across Google, Meta, and Microsoft. He currently leads multiple GKE-focused teams—spanning AI/ML workloads, game/extended-reality platforms, and Kubernetes control plane reliability—while fostering rapid innovation and scalable product adoption. His background blends hands-on engineering (open-source SDK contributions to Microsoft Application Insights and modernizing JS/TS toolchains) with productizing infrastructure-as-code patterns that moved Config Connector and Terraform integrations from zero to hundreds of enterprise users. A former founder who built geospatial and consumer apps end-to-end, he pairs startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade execution and a track record of shipping large distributed systems and developer tooling. Based in Sammamish, WA, he brings a rare combination of platform architecture, OSS fluency, and cross-company leadership to cloud-native infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
German, Russian, Chinese, English, Polish
Stackoverflow
2,436reputation
166kreached
49answers
4questions
azure
top-5%
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
observability10
expressjs10
http10
typescript10
sdk10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
package-development9
redis9
plugin-development9
drupal-module9
azure9
interface-design8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-node.js
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Microsoft Application Insights SDK for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 45 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the development of a sample application within the repository, specifically focusing on HTTP and Redis dependency scenarios. They added code to generate HTTP dependencies, integrating with external services like finance.google.com, and set up the basic structure for Redis dependencies. Additionally, they made changes to the core application to include these new scenarios and integrated the application insights SDK for testing purposes. The user’s changes involved creating, modifying, and integrating dependencies within a Node.js application.
node-jsapplication-insightsloggingobservabilitysdk
microsoft/ApplicationInsights-JS
May 2015 - Jul 2016
Microsoft Application Insights SDK for JavaScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 55 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the JavaScript SDK for Application Insights. Their work included referencing the TypeScript compiler, removing hardcoded versions, and updating project files. They also added modules and extracted the public surface into interfaces to improve code organization and maintainability. Furthermore, the user made changes related to compiling with ES5 and adding TypeScript typings, indicating a focus on modernizing the codebase.
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